Rick Borotsik

Rick Borotsik
MLA for Brandon West
In office 2007–2011
Preceded by	Scott Smith
Succeeded by	Reg Helwer
Member of Parliament for Brandon—Souris
In office 1997–2004
Preceded by	Glen McKinnon
Succeeded by	Merv Tweed
Mayor of Brandon, Manitoba
In office 1989–1997
Preceded by	Ken Burgess
Succeeded by	Reg Atkinson
Personal details
Born	September 8, 1950 Brandon, Manitoba
Political party	Progressive Conservative → Conservative (federal) Manitoba Progressive Conservative Party (provincial)

Rick Borotsik (born September 8, 1950) is a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He served as Mayor of Brandon from 1989 to 1997, was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1997 to 2004, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba in 2007. Borotsik is a member of the Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba.

Borotsik was born to a Ukrainian family in Brandon, was raised in that city, and graduated from Brandon University in 1971. He was elected to the Brandon City Council in 1977 and served for three terms before standing down in 1985.

He joined the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada in 1978. Borotsik sought the provincial PC party's nomination for Brandon West in the buildup to the 1986 provincial election, but lost to Jim McCrae.

Borotsik was an employee of the shopping centre firm Bramalea Limited during the 1980s. He was transferred from Brandon to Calgary in 1985, and again to the firm's head office in Toronto one year later. He remained the city for three years, and became director of 32 centres. Finding it difficult to adjust to life in Toronto, he returned to Brandon in 1989. He ran for mayor in that year's municipal election, and won an upset victory over four-term incumbent Ken Burgess.

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