Independent Senate leader lays out plan to ‘modernize’ Red Chamber, waiting for signal government is ready to help

The Senate Modernization Committee is aiming to recommend some changes to the way the Senate does business in a June report, says Quebec Liberal Senator Serge Joyal.

Independent Senator Yuen Pau Woo is pressing to permanently change the rules and practices of the Senate to put the group he leads, the Independent Senators Group, on equal footing with the opposition Conservatives and the government representative in the Chamber. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

April 30, 2018

The leader of the largest group in the Senate laid out a list of changes to the rules, practices, and act governing the Upper Chamber that he said are needed in front of a committee of his peers last week. Independent Senator Yuen...

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