Senate suspends Sen. Beyak without pay until election

Sen. Beyak asked Senators for more time to respond to a report on her actions by the Senate Ethics Officer, but none came forward to support her.

Senator Lynn Beyak has been suspended from the Senate until Parliament is dissolved for an election by her fellow Senators after she refused to take letters containing racist statement about Indigenous Canadians, written by her supporters, off her Senate website. The Hill Times file photograph

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

May 9, 2019

Senators agreed to suspend Senator Lynn Beyak without pay for the rest of the parliamentary session Thursday afternoon, and to require the Senate administration to take down letters from her website containing racist statements about Indigenous people in Canada. Senators voted to adopt the Senate E...

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