Bills targeting Indigenous women’s rights the ‘culmination’ of career for retiring Senator Dyck

Lillian Dyck, who became Canada's first First Nations woman named to the Senate in 2005, is retiring this month.

Ahead of her Aug. 24 retirement Progressive Senator Lillian Dyck, pictured at an April 2019 press conference demanding the government remove sex discrimination in the Indian Act, says the successful efforts to pass that bill was among her proudest moments in a 15-year career in the Upper Chamber.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

August 19, 2020

Senator Lillian Dyck says that when she retires from the Senate later this month, she’s ready after having achieved more than she could have dreamed at the beginning of her surprise appointment 15 years before. The neuroscient...

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