Senate’s mishandling of sexual misconduct scandal is a national disgrace

Entire housing subdivisions and gleaming skyscrapers have been built in less time than it is taking the Senate to deal with the wrongdoing of one if its members.

The Senate Internal Economy, Budgets, and Administration committee, pictured during a May 9, 2019 meeting in the Senate of Canada Building. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY KATHLEEN FINLAY

October 9, 2019

Institutional betrayal is one of those things that, to paraphrase a famed American jurist, is hard to describe in theory, but easy to recognize on observation. Right now, the Senate of Canada has institutional betrayal written all over it. Its journey down this ignominious path began when it took a...

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