Dalphond’s exit from ISG watershed moment for Trudeau’s experiment with Senate modernization

The point of institutional reform was not to continue the rule of fear and favour in the Senate, in forcing through decisions and doling out the goodies from the top. That is not reform. That is regression.

Quebec Senator Pierre Dalphond, right, pictured on Dec. 12, 2019, at Qatar's National Day reception at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa with Homoud Al-Saaide, the Embassy of Qatar's counsellor and chargé d'affaires. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY Michael Harris

May 25, 2020

HALIFAX—Here Come the Judge was an iconic song in 1968 by the Magistrates, featuring the voice of Jean Hillary. There Goes the Judge is the 2020 adaptation, Canadian Senate-style. The judge, (former judge) in question is Pierre J. Dalphond. His departure from the Independent Se...

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