Senator Lynn Beyak dumped from Conservative caucus for posting ‘racist’ letters

'Promoting this comment is offensive and unacceptable for a Conservative Parliamentarian,' says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer.

Senator Lynn Beyak, pictured here at a committee meeting alongside fellow Conservative Senators Judith Seidman and Carolyn Stewart Olsen, has been removed from the Conservative Senate caucus after purportedly failing to remove inflammatory letters with anti-Indigenous sentiments from her parliamentary website. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

January 5, 2018

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer has booted controversial Senator Lynn Beyak from the party’s national caucus after claiming she refused to remove “racist” letters of support for her position on residential schools from her parliamentary website.

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