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QuickSketch of Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown

A glance at the career of Ontario Progressive Leader Patrick Brown.

— Brown was elected leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party on May 9, 2015, running on a platform of party renewal.

— Was first elected to city council in Barrie, Ont., in 2000 at age 22, and re-elected three years later.

— In 2006, Brown defeated incumbent Liberal cabinet minister Aileen Carroll in the federal election and became the MP for Barrie.

— He was re-elected in 2008 and 2011.

— Was vice-president of the PC Party of Ontario and served two terms as president of the Progressive Conservative Youth Federation.

— Brown is an alumnus of St. Michael’s College School in Toronto and also studied at the University of Toronto and University of Windsor.

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