Brent St. Denis Politician

Brent J. St. Denis (born May 27, 1950 in Blind River, Ontario) is a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2008, originally representing Algoma and later its successor ridings of Algoma—Manitoulin and Algoma—Manitoulin—Kapuskasing. St. Denis is a former executive assistant, industrial engineer, and teacher. He is a former parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and the Minister of Transport, and also served as chair of the standing committee on industry, science, and technology, and the subcommittee on agenda and procedure of the standing committee on industry, science and technology. St. Denis was defeated by Carol Hughes of the New Democratic Party in the 2008 federal election.