off limits, period.” In addressing the prospect of losing members of the party because of this more affirmative tone for the Ontario PCs, Brown said, “Frankly, I think I opened the party up to tens of thousands more who simply want a reasonable, thoughtful, modern, inclusive PC party,” so I'm not worried about a few leaving.” As Mayor of Brampton in June of 2019, Brown wrote an op-ed in the Toronto Star discussing the historical and political importance of the Toronto’s Pride Parade and called on provincial and federal conservative leaders including Doug Ford and Andrew Scheer to officially march in the Toronto and Ottawa parades. In 2019, Brown and Brampton City Council marched in the Toronto Pride Parade as an official delegation for the first time in the city’s history. Sri Lanka Brown is a critic of the Sri Lankan government, particularly of its treatment of Sri Lankan Tamils. He has labelled the atrocities faced by Tamil civilians in Sri Lanka a genocide. Brown was an advocate of Bill 104, which officially declared the Sri Lankan government's actions a genocide. In January 2021, following the demolition of a Mullivaikkal monument at Jaffna University by university authorities, he vowed to build a similar monument in Brampton. In November 2021, Brown commemorated Maaveerar Naal on behalf of the city. In a video privately shared to members of the Tamil Canadian community, he stated that if he became Prime Minister, he would lift the terrorist designation of the LTTE and apologize for its listing, arguing that the LTTE's actions were "acts of self-defence against a Sri Lankan government that was acting in a manner that was a modern atrocity" and that "rather than it being a symbol of terrorism, the tiger is a symbol of, in my opinion, self-defence against the government committing war crimes." He also argued that "[t]oo many Tamil Canadians continue to be stigmatized due to this ban" and that the ban is "unduly affecting family reunification and professional opportunities." Personal life Brown's wife, Genevieve Gualtieri, is the niece of current Progressive Conservative MPP Rudy Cuzzetto who represents Mississauga—Lakeshore. They lived in the Lorne Park neighbourhood of Mississauga, but simultaneously had a lease in Brampton; they have since moved within the city. In July 2019 the couple announced the birth of their first child, a boy. Brown is the nephew of Joe Tascona, a former Progressive Conservative MPP who