‘Racism is the issue here, not Lynn Beyak’: Senator McCallum vows to keep pressing Senate to tackle bigotry

‘If our rules had prohibited this kind of behaviour, we could have saved at least three years worth of upset,’ says former senator Lillian Dyck.

Independent Senator Mary Jane McCallum, left, and former senator Lillian Dyck said they welcomed Lynn Beyak's decision to retire from the Senate, but also said more work must be done to confront racism in the Senate. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY PETER MAZEREEUW

February 1, 2021

Lynn Beyak’s retirement last week from the Senate won’t put an end to the debate on racism in the Red Chamber if Independent Senator Mary Jane McCallum has anything to say about it. Sen. McCallum (Manitoba) was getting read...

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