‘The timing is right’: Stephen Greene bids farewell to Senate

The now-former senator recently sat down to talk everything from ‘herding cats’ in his early days as chief of staff to Preston Manning, to ‘plotting’ Senate modernization.

A one-time proponent of Triple-E Senate reform, recently retired senator Stephen Greene says his work to modernize the institution into a more independent—but unelected—body is a stand-out memory. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

December 18, 2024

A former conservative political staffer and self-proclaimed “party hack,” recently retired Nova Scotia senator Stephen Greene evolved into a champion of Senate modernization during his almost 16 years in the Chamber. Today, that work—and the friendships he formed along...

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