Liberal Senator Finestone had chutzpah, recalls a former staffer

Sheila Finestone made sure that audacity remained the centrepiece theme of her political life so that politics could be the life-enhancing force it was meant to be.

VANCOUVER—It was early April 2001 and I had made an appointment to see Quebec Liberal Senator Sheila Finestone. I wanted to ask her if she'd be willing to push the Speaker of the Senate to invite His Holiness the Dalai Lama to deliver a speech to the Senate during his visit to Canada s...

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