Senators asked to study limits of parliamentary privilege for harassment investigations

The study was 'inspired' by a Senate ethics officer's report that singled out the use of privilege in the Don Meredith case.

Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain is the chair of the Senate's Human Resources Subcommittee, and the deputy leader of the Independent Senators Group. She called for a new study on the limits of parliamentary privilege for Senators in harassment investigations. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 10, 2020

The Senate Rules Committee will be asked to study the limits of when Senators can claim parliamentary privilege during a harassment investigation, as some did during the Senate ethics officer’s investigation into disgraced former senator Don Meredith.

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