Patrick Brazeau
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The Honourable Patrick Brazeau |
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| Senator for Repentigny, Quebec | |
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Assumed office January 8, 2009 |
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| Nominated by | Stephen Harper |
| Appointed by | David Johnston |
| Preceded by | Marisa Ferretti Barth |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
November 11, 1974 Maniwaki, Quebec |
| Political party | Independent Senators Group |
| Other political affiliations |
Independent Conservative 2013-2016 Conservative Party 2009-2013 |
| Profession | Senator, Strip club manager |
Patrick Brazeau (born November 11, 1974) is a Canadian senator from Quebec. At the age of 42, he was the youngest member of the Senate. From February 2006 until January 2009 he held the position of national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples. Brazeau was expelled from the Conservative caucus following his February 7, 2013 arrest for domestic assault and sexual assault. Brazeau worked as day manager of an Ottawa strip club called the BareFax while suspended from the Senate. On September 15, 2015, Brazeau pleaded guilty to simple assault and cocaine possession as part of a plea deal in which other assault charges were dropped, and he was acquitted of sexual assault.
On October 28, 2015, he was granted an absolute discharge by Quebec Court Judge Valmont Beaulieu; hence, he was not incarcerated and will avoid having a criminal record. However, The Globe and Mail newspaper reported that "Brazeau [remained] suspended from the upper chamber, and his salary is being clawed back to repay nearly $50,000 in disallowed housing expense claims." Brazeau returned to his seat in the Senate in September 2016 after charges of fraud and breach of trust related to his expense claims were withdrawn by the Crown.
Brazeau is an Algonquin from the Kitigan Zibi reserve near Maniwaki. He worked at HMCS Carleton, a Royal Canadian Naval Reserve unit based in Ottawa that operates under the Canadian Forces Maritime Command. Brazeau earned a Quebec Diploma of College Studies in social sciences from CEGEP Heritage College (Gatineau) and has studied, but dropped out of civil law at the University of Ottawa.
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