Leading experts say Meredith can’t be expelled from Senate, others say ‘where there’s a will, there’s a way’

Senators are the ‘masters of their own House’ and can expel one of their own, says parliamentary expert and Queen’s University emeritus professor Ned Franks.

Ind. Sen. Don Meredith is scheduled to make a submission to the Senate Ethics and Conflict of Interest Committee on Tuesday, April 4.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

April 3, 2017

Two of Canada's leading parliamentary experts say Independent Senator Don Meredith, who was found to be in violation of two sections of the Senate Ethics Code over an inappropriate sexual relationship with a teenaged girl, cannot be declared a non-Senator by his colleagues, while others say a determ...

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