Senate groups scramble for members ahead of committee selection, ex-member calls out ISG ‘groupthink’

The Senate leaders will negotiate how to split committee seats and chairs between four Senate groups in the new Parliament, and numbers will matter.

Canadian Senators Group interim leader Scott Tannas, ISG Leader Yuen Pau Woo, Progressive Senators Group Interim Leader Joseph Day, and Conservative Senate Leader Don Plett. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

November 18, 2019

Editor's note: this story has been updated online to reflect Senator Jean-Guy Dagenais' and Senator Percy Downe's decisions to join the Canadian Senators Group on Monday. The now five-group Senate is in flux just a few weeks before Parliament reconvenes, wit...

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