[Rerun]

Originally Posted by SebC

I hate to say this, but Brazeau looks like an affirmative action hire gone wrong. The pool of aboriginal conservatives can't be very big.

Hey, on paper this guy looked like a great draft choice for the Senate. Who knew?

From February 2006 until January 2009 he held the position of national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.
Brazeau is an Algonquin from the Kitigan Zibi reserve near Maniwaki. He served with the Canadian Forces Maritime Command Naval Reserve at HMCS Carleton, an administrative building in Ottawa, and also earned a DEC in social sciences from CEGEP Heritage College (Gatineau) and has studied civil law at the University of Ottawa.
Brazeau joined the Congress in 2001 and was elected vice-chief in April 2005. He served as acting 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.[1]
Fluent in both official Canadian languages, English and French, Brazeau's language preference is French.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Brazeau


Edit: as I look further into this maybe his cv isn't that great. I didn't know what a DEC was but apparently its French for College Diploma.... so he's got a 2 yr diploma in Social Sciences. As to "studied civil law" all that could mean was that he took a single course in civil law at U of O.

It seems like the biggest feather in his cap was that he managed to get himself elected as national chief of the Congress of Aboriginal Peoples.

Hmmm ... looking into this further perhaps Harper and his advisors COULD have found someone perhaps a little better.