‘Unfinished business’: reintroduced Senate reform bill brings ‘fairness,’ legitimacy to new group leaders

Senators say the Upper Chamber should soon finish its work on Bill S-2, which would give better pay and official status to the leaders of the three new groups in the Senate

Yuen Pau Woo, the Senate's outgoing facilitator of the ISG, left, government representative in the Senate Marc Gold, and CSG Leader Scott Tannas all say they support S-2 and hope to see it pass soon. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, courtesy of Scott Tannas

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

December 6, 2021

The government’s early move to reintroduce a Senate bill to permanently grant new rights and funding to three more Senate leaders is a sign Canadian law is catching up to Red Chamber moder...

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