Working group struck to review Red Chamber’s opaque environmental policy

What’s currently covered in the Senate’s environmental policy is unclear, but Sen. Deacon says the group will work to recommend short-, medium-, and long-term steps the Senate can take.

The Senate of Canada Building at 2 Rideau St., pictured on Dec. 10, 2020. The new four-member Senate environmental working group, as a subgroup of CIBA, will be able to meet through the summer, even if Parliament is dissolved for an election. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

June 9, 2021

A new group of four Senators will be working this summer to review and make recommendations to update the Red Chamber’s almost 30-year-old environmental policy, an internal document first adopted in 1993 about which little is apparently publicly known. ...

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