Patrick Brown

Patrick Walter Brown is a lawyer and politician who is the Mayor of Brampton and former Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the riding of Simcoe North. Brown was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and Ontario's Leader of the Official Opposition from May 2015 to January 2018. He was born in Toronto of Irish and Italian descent, and raised Roman Catholic. Brown graduated from St. Michael's College School, studied political science at the University of Toronto, and graduated with a law degree from the University of Windsor.