Why I resigned from the ISG before my expulsion hearing: Senator Marilou McPhedran

The ISG leadership has made it clear that the group will not provide a political home for someone who asks uncomfortable questions and demands a higher standard of accountability.

The Senate Chamber, pictured in 2019. The leaders of the largest group in the Senate, the Independent Senators Group, scheduled a hearing for Oct. 18 to determine whether or not to expel Senator Marilou McPhedran from the group. Sen. McPhedran chose to resign from the group before the hearing.Photograph courtesy of Public Services and Procurement Canada

Opinion

BY MARILOU MCPHEDRAN

October 17, 2021

On this day in 1929, the Supreme Court of Canada was overruled by the British Privy Council when Lord Sankey delivered the decision in what we now know as the Persons Case, confirming that women could be appointed to the Senate of Canada with these words: "exclusion of women from all public offices ...

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