Today is the birthday of Canadian Member of Parliament SCOTT BRISON. Canadian MP for Kings-Hants Nova Scotia, he was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia. He came out in December of 2002 to keep from being outed. He was Minister of Public Works and Government Services under Paul Martin and ran to succeed Martin as party leader in the 2006 Liberal leadership convention. He dropped out after the first ballot and endorsed first Bob Rae, then Michael Ignatieff. It was announced in October 2005 that he and his partner, Maxime Saint-Pierre, intended to marry. They were married on August 18, 2007.