Some ministers, bureaucrats don’t get Trudeau’s vision for Senate, says André Pratte

'Once the legislation gets passed the House of Commons, they think they are done,' says André Pratte, the outgoing Senator of some influential government bureaucrats and politicians.

André Pratte, 62, a former editor of La Presse, quit his job as a Senator because he was tired of being caught in a battle between partisan Conservative Senators and a government that wasn’t interested in making compromises on legislation that had reached the Senate, he said. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

October 28, 2019

Some of the influential bureaucrats, ministers, and staff in the Liberal government don’t understand Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s push for an independent Senate, and aren't interested in using the Senate to improve government bills, according to

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