‘The gamesmanship leaves me feeling cold’: Frances Lankin reflects on eight years in the Senate

A founding member of NSICOP, Senator Lankin says its reports on foreign interference should be mandatory reading for parliamentarians, who need to step up and move beyond partisan ploys.
Senator Frances Lankin
Oct. 11 will be Ontario ISG Senator Frances Lankin's last day sitting in the Red Chamber before her early retirement date of Oct. 21.

Though it’s increasingly the dominant feature of political debate in Canada, ISG Senator Frances Lankin says partisan posturing is a detriment to civic discourse and responsibility—and is something she'll be happy to leave behind when she bids the Red Chamber farewell la...

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