Ratna Omidvar on immigration, and eight years of legislating in the Senate

Reflecting on the federal government's recently reduced immigration-levels plan, Omidvar says she's 'particularly concerned about the drop in refugee numbers.'

‘I couldn’t see a way of saying anything but ‘yes’ to the country that gave me everything,’ says now-former senator Ratna Omidvar of her decision to accept appointment to the Red Chamber in 2016.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

November 13, 2024

A once-reluctant Senate appointee, as she prepared to bid the Red Chamber a final farewell, now-former Ontario senator Ratna Omidvar says the opportunity it’s afforded her to leave her “fingerprints on the legislative narrative of this country” has been an “enormous ...

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