Why Mobina Jaffer left the Senate Liberals to sit solo

She says people from her province, B.C., pushed her to become more independent, leaving the Grit group with nine members.

Senator Mobina Jaffer, pictured left with Liberal Senator Jane Cordy and Independent Senator Sabi Marwah, is now sitting as a non-affiliated Senator in the Red Chamber after switching out of the Liberal caucus last month. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY CHARELLE EVELYN

January 16, 2019

The ever-shrinking collective of Liberal-branded Senators will be smaller when the Red Chamber sits next month, following the departure from caucus of now non-affiliated Senator Mobina Jaffer. “It was a very, very painful decision to make,” Sen. Jaffer (British Columbia) told The Hill Times...

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