Brent Colbert

Brent Colbert is a Canadian conservative public policy advisor. Colbert served as Chief of Staff to the Mayor of the City of Ottawa Larry O'Brien from 2006-2010 Prior to that he served as a senior advisor to the Ministers of Health, Environment and Community Family and Children's Services at Queen's Park. In January 2011 Colbert announced his intention to seek the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario nomination in Ottawa West—Nepean, but later stepped aside to allow Ottawa Citizen columnist Randall Denley to run for election. Denley lost, and Colbert instead became Campaign Manager for Jason MacDonald, the Progressive Conservative candidate in Ottawa South. Colbert is currently a Principal for a Tactix, a government relations and public affairs company.