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Patrick Brazeau (born November 11, 1974) is a suspended Canadian senator, who until February 7, 2013, was sitting with the Conservative Party. At the age of , 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 is currently employed as day manager of an Ottawa strip club called the BareFax. On September 15, 2015, Brazeau pled guilty to simple assault and cocaine possession as part of a plea deal in which other assault charges were dropped and he was formally acquitted of sexual assault. On October 28, 2015, he was granted an unconditional discharge by Quebec Court Judge Valmont Beaulieu; hence, he will not be incarcerated and will avoid having a criminal record. However, The Globe and Mail newspaper reports that "Brazeau remains suspended from the upper chamber, and his salary is being clawed back to repay nearly $50,000 in disallowed housing expense claims."〔http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/brazeau-to-be-sentenced-on-assault-cocaine-charges/article27015966/〕 ==Life and career== Brazeau is an Algonquin from the Kitigan Zibi reserve near Maniwaki. He worked at , a Royal Canadian Naval Reserve unit based out of Ottawa that operates under the Canadian Forces Maritime Command. Brazeau earned a DEC in social sciences from CEGEP Heritage College (Gatineau) and has studied, but dropped out of civil law at the University of Ottawa. Fluent in both official Canadian languages, English and French, Brazeau's language preference is French. Brazeau joined the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples (CAP) in 2001 and was elected vice-chief in April 2005. He acted as national chief from February 2006 until his election later in November of the same year. He is a member of CAP's affiliate, Alliance Autochtone du Quebec Inc. also known as the Native Alliance of Quebec, or the AAQ or NAQ.〔(Congress of Aboriginal Peoples )〕 Brazeau pursued a very vocal strategy to obtain repeal of Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act as his CAP vision. His position was that Section 67 impeded the individual human rights of aboriginals by its insistence that communal Indian Act rights superseded the CHRA. In this position he was supported by editorials of the National Post and the Globe and Mail.〔 Brazeau endorsed passage of Bill C-21 as a step toward reform of Aboriginal governance, suggesting on 20 June 2008 that the extension of human rights protection “will ultimately lead to the dismantling of the Indian Act.”〔 On December 22, 2008, Brazeau was appointed to the Senate on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper. He was sworn in as a senator on January 8, 2009. On March 31, 2012, Brazeau lost in a celebrity boxing match to Liberal MP Justin Trudeau. Brazeau has stated that he would like a rematch with Trudeau but Trudeau declined to participate in another boxing match. On May 30, 2015, Brazeau acted as a guest referee at a Great North Wrestling event at the Earl Armstrong Arena in Ottawa. Brazeau ended up getting bodyslammed through a table during the course of the match. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Patrick Brazeau」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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