# Pauline Browes > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pauline_Browes > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Pauline_Browes.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Browes > Source revision: 1347335022 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Canadian politician (born 1938) This biography of a living person needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libelous. Find sources: "Pauline Browes" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Honourable Pauline Browes PC Member of Parliament for Scarborough Centre In office September 4, 1984 – October 25, 1993 Preceded by Norm Kelly Succeeded by John Cannis Personal details Born (1938-05-07) May 7, 1938 (age 88) Harwood, Ontario, Canada Party Conservative (Federal) Progressive Conservative (Provincial) Profession Teacher **Pauline Browes** [PC](/source/King's_Privy_Council_for_Canada) (born May 7, 1938) is a former [Canadian](/source/Canadians) [politician](/source/Politics_of_Canada). She was a [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(Canada)) between 1984 and 1993. An educator by training, Browes was first elected to the [House of Commons of Canada](/source/House_of_Commons_of_Canada) as the [Progressive Conservative](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Canada) Member of Parliament for the [riding](/source/Electoral_district_(Canada)) of [Scarborough Centre](/source/Scarborough_Centre_(federal_electoral_district)) in the [1984 federal election](/source/1984_Canadian_federal_election). The PCs, led by [Brian Mulroney](/source/Brian_Mulroney), won power with the largest [majority government](/source/Majority_government) in Canadian history. She served as [parliamentary secretary](/source/Parliamentary_secretary) to the [Minister of the Environment](/source/Minister_of_the_Environment_(Canada)) from 1986 to 1989, and as parliamentary secretary to both the [Secretary of State for Canada](/source/Secretary_of_State_for_Canada) and the [Minister of State](/source/Minister_of_State_(Canada)) for multiculturalism and citizenship from 1989 until 1991. In that year, Mulroney appointed her Minister of State for the Environment. In January 1993, she was moved to the position of Minister of State for Employment and Immigration. When [Kim Campbell](/source/Kim_Campbell) succeeded Mulroney as PC leader and [Prime Minister of Canada](/source/Prime_Minister_of_Canada) in June 1993, she promoted Browes to [Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development](/source/Minister_of_Indian_Affairs_and_Northern_Development_(Canada)). However, in the subsequent [1993 federal election](/source/1993_Canadian_federal_election), the Campbell government was defeated and Browes lost her seat. During the [1995 Ontario provincial election](/source/1995_Ontario_general_election), she served as a special advisor to the [Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario](/source/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Ontario) election campaign won by [Mike Harris](/source/Mike_Harris), who became [Premier of Ontario](/source/Premier_of_Ontario). Harris subsequently appointed her Vice Chair of the Ontario Environmental Review Tribunal. On April 20, 2005, the *[National Post](/source/National_Post)* reported that Browes had been recruited by the [Conservative Party of Canada](/source/Conservative_Party_of_Canada) as one of their [star candidates](/source/Star_candidate) in the [2006 federal election](/source/2006_Canadian_federal_election). She ran in the riding of [Scarborough-Guildwood](/source/Scarborough%E2%80%94Guildwood_(federal_electoral_district)), coming second to [Liberal](/source/Liberal_Party_of_Canada) incumbent [John McKay](/source/John_McKay_(Ontario_politician%2C_born_1948)) with 11,790 votes (28.7%). She currently sits on the Joint Political Advisory Committee of the North American trilateral [Commission for Environmental Cooperation](/source/Commission_for_Environmental_Cooperation).[1] She is the daughter of former Member of Parliament, [Earle Drope](/source/Earle_Drope). ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["JPAC Members"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161203171841/http://cec.org/about-us/jpac/jpac-members). *About the CEC*. Commission for Environmental Cooperation. Archived from [the original](http://cec.org/about-us/jpac/jpac-members) on 3 December 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2017. ## External links - [Pauline Browes – Parliament of Canada biography](https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=13806) Parliament of Canada Political offices Preceded by Thomas Edward Siddon Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development 1993 Succeeded by Ron Irwin v t e Cabinet of Prime Minister Kim Campbell (1993) Kim Campbell Perrin Beatty Pierre Blais Pauline Browes Jean Charest Mary Collins Jean Corbeil Paul Dick Jim Edwards Tom Hockin Monique Landry Doug Lewis Gilles Loiselle Peter McCreath Charles Mayer Lowell Murray Rob Nicholson Ross Reid Larry Schneider Tom Siddon Bobbie Sparrow Garth Turner Bernard Valcourt Pierre H. Vincent Gerry Weiner v t e Cabinet of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1984–93) Brian Mulroney Harvie Andre Perrin Beatty André Bissonnette Pierre Blais Suzanne Blais-Grenier Benoît Bouchard Lucien Bouchard Pauline Browes Pierre Cadieux Kim Campbell Pat Carney Andrée Champagne Jean Charest Joe Clark Robert Coates Mary Collins Jean Corbeil Michel Côté David Crombie John Crosbie Marcel Danis Robert de Cotret Paul Dick Jake Epp John Fraser George Hees Ray Hnatyshyn Tom Hockin Otto Jelinek James Kelleher Roch La Salle Monique Landry Robert Layton Doug Lewis Gilles Loiselle Flora MacDonald Elmer MacKay Shirley Martin Marcel Masse Charles Mayer Don Mazankowski John McDermid Barbara McDougall Stewart McInnes Bill McKnight Walter McLean Thomas McMillan Gerald Merrithew Lowell Murray Jack Murta Erik Nielsen Frank Oberle Alan Redway Dufferin Roblin Tom Siddon Gerry St. Germain Sinclair Stevens Bernard Valcourt Monique Vézina Pierre H. Vincent Gerry Weiner Michael Wilson William Winegard John Wise --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Pauline Browes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Browes) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Browes?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.