Meredith and the meritorious

Senator Peter Harder and the entire ISG need to apologize to those women and to the Senate at large for their extreme lapse in judgment.

We are now more than a year into the Trudeau government’s effort to rid the Senate of political parties and replace them with a meritocracy of 105 'worthy' individuals, all of them, supposedly, non-partisan, writes Conservative Sen. David Tkachuk. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CONSERVATIVE SENATOR DAVID TKACHUK

March 27, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—We are now more than a year into the Trudeau government’s effort to rid the Senate of political parties and replace them with a meritocracy of 105 “worthy” individuals, all of them, supposedly, non-partisan. Among the first of those individuals appointed was Peter Harder, a ...

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