No more shush deals: Senators ready to press for accountability, harassment reforms once Parliament returns

A Senate subcommittee approved a new policy for dealing with harassment in the Red Chamber before Christmas.

'There is nothing to say that if something similar is happening under our noses right now that we would be able to produce more just results,' says Independent Senator Marilou McPhedran, pictured, of former senator Don Meredith's harassment of Senate staff. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

January 20, 2020

ISG Manitoba Senator Marilou McPhedran says she is planning to press for more changes to the way harassment complaints are handled in the Red Chamber when Parliament returns from its winter break, including a ban on asking harassment victims to sign non-disclosure agr...

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