Quebec federalist joins Senate

André Pratte has also been a constant advocate of a return to the constitutional table to deal with Quebec's place in the federation but also to modernize Canada's institutions. If Trudeau was looking to appoint a federalist contrarian from his home province to the Senate, Pratte fits the bill in more ways than one.

Absent the collective recognition on the part of its independent members that a merit-based Senate still lacks the legitimacy of an elected one, the Upper House has the potential to become a bigger plague on Canadian voters and their representatives than its previous partisan incarnation, writes Chantal Hébert.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

April 4, 2016

MONTREAL—Before emerging as one of Quebec's leading federalist voices, future senator André Pratte twice voted yes in the space of 15 years for a Quebec outside the Canadian federation. He distanced himself from the sovereignty project after the 1995 referendum and Jacques Parizeau's controversi...

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