[7][8] Brown trained as a welder in Happy Valley-Goose Bay and returned to Labrador City to work.

[10] In 2017, Brown unsuccessfully sought election to the Labrador City town council.

In 2022, Brown criticized the provincial government's claim that the Trans-Labrador Highway had been completed.

[11] He argued that it isn't finished until a road reaches Labrador's north coast as far as Nain.

[13] In 2023, Brown criticized the Bloc Québécois for having a map Newfoundland and Labrador–Quebec border with Quebec having control of Labrador.