Updated: Progressive Senate Group folds, but leader hopes to claw back to official status

'Trudeau made it clear that he wanted our group gone from the Senate'—ex-Liberal Senator Percy Downe.

Senators Percy Downe and Joseph Day were members of the Progressive Senate Group, which lost official status after Sen. Downe left the group Nov. 18. The Hill Times file photographs

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

November 18, 2019

Editor's note: this story has been updated with additional detail about the PSG Senators' change in affiliation, and comments from Sen. Joseph Day and Sen. Percy Downe. The Progressive Senate Group has officially folded, losing group status just days after it was established last week by t...

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