‘I’m left with questions’: Senator Bernard’s push to highlight the Upper Chamber’s lack of Black men

Only three Black men have been appointed to the Senate in its history, and there have been none in the Chamber since Don Meredith’s resignation in 2017.

'I want the people who are responsible for making these decisions to know that people are watching,' says PSG Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard.Photograph courtesy of the Senate of Canada

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

January 6, 2025

Progressive Senator Wanda Thomas Bernard wants to know why there are no Black men in the Senate, and has been using her platform in the Chamber to repeatedly highlight that absence, raising concerns that unconscious bias is at play.

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