‘Second-class Senators’: McCallum pushing to empower non-affiliated Senators

Manitoba Senator Marilou McPhedran says she knew, ‘theoretically,’ the difference being non-affiliated would make when she left the Independent Senators Group last year, but ‘living it is very different.’

Non-affiliated Senator Mary Jane McCallum is calling for further Senate reform, arguing that, 'despite being a modern Senate that supposedly values and champions independence, the Senators who brave being truly independent are treated as second-class Senators.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

November 2, 2022

Non-affiliated Manitoba Senator Mary Jane McCallum is pushing for the Red Chamber to reconsider its rules and processes to enable unaffiliated Senators to participate more fully and equally in Senate business, without relying on the goodwill of recognized groups for s...

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