Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #25, Patrick Brown
Toronto’s 50 Most Influential: #25, Patrick Brown
By Toronto Life | November 28, 2016
By Toronto Life | 11/28/2016
Patrick Brown Photograph by Erin Leydon
Patrick Brown
PC Party Leader
25 The door is wide open for Brown to take back the legislature. He didn’t help his cause by flip-flopping on same-sex marriage and the sex-ed curriculum, but his disavowal of social conservatism may make him more palatable to middle-of-the-road voters. He scored points on Liberal spending programs, including the $12 million they paid to launch a $225-million hydro program to help low-income families.
Friends in high places:
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The PM is Toronto’s most influential person (even though, yes, he doesn’t live here)
Ottawa’s most powerful unelected man
The prime minister’s right-hand woman
The guy who brought Toronto basketball back from the brink
The film festival gatekeepers
Queen’s Park’s second-in-command
The Blue Jays’ bringer of rain
The man in charge of wrangling Ontario’s doctors
The multi-talented troubadour
The business mind behind the Blue Jays
The TV star who might (or might not) be PM material
Justin Trudeau’s image-maker
Waterloo’s billion-dollar man
Toronto’s ride-hailing king
The Black Lives Matter Toronto organizers
The rising Hollywood star
Toronto basketball’s biggest stars
The new Art Gallery of Ontario honcho
The ROM’s Renaissance man
The city’s publishing powerhouse
Ontario’s new minister of education
Toronto’s most promising young filmmaker
The assisted dying advocate
Bell Media’s new overlord
The minister of Indigenous and northern affairs
The heir to the Ford dynasty