1. Active in sports, Gord Brown was a Canadian Kayaking Champion with the Gananoque Canoe Club and competed internationally and competed in the world championship in 1988.
11 Facts About Gord Brown
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Gord Brown was an active member of federal and provincial conservative associations since his youth.
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Gord Brown introduced a number of Private Members' Bills in the House of Commons: In 2008, C-393, known as the Knife Bill, passed Second Reading and was at committee when the House dissolved, in 2008 he introduced Bill C-542, which would provide for Employment Insurance Benefits for working parents of critically ill children.
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Gord Brown introduced C-370 a bill to change the name of the St Lawrence Islands National Park of Canada to Thousand Islands National Park of Canada which became law in 2013.
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Gord Brown was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, on the advice of Conservative Party of Canada Leader Andrew Scheer, to sit on the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians on November 6,2017, and served on the committee until his death.
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From 2013 until the 2015 election, Gord Brown was chair of the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and the House of Commons Chair of the Canada-United States Inter-Parliamentary Group.
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Gord Brown sat on several all-party caucuses focusing on rural, health, border and other issues and participated in numerous parliamentary groups.
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Gord Brown was chosen in an earlier Parliament by then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper to chair the special committee that reviewed the Anti-Terrorism Act.
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Gord Brown served as chair of the Ontario Conservative Caucus under Harper.
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Gord Brown was married to Claudine and leaves behind two sons, one of whom was born from a previous marriage to Sherry Gord Brown.
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Gord Brown died on May 2,2018, aged 57, after having a heart attack at his office on Parliament Hill.