‘I hope I can say I have fought the good fight’: Tory stalwart Don Plett retires

‘We have to make sure that we do not wait for the other person to put out the olive branch,’ says the outgoing Conservative senator of recent federal-provincial infighting.

Retiring Conservative senator Don Plett sat down with The Hill Times in his third-floor office in the Senate of Canada Building on May 7. He officially retires on May 14. The Hill Times photographs by Sam Garcia

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

May 14, 2025

The Conservative Party’s founding president, Manitoba senator Don Plett, has officially exited the Red Chamber, and after a disappointing election, he’s urging federal and provincial conservative “cousins” to put down their knives, and pick up olive branches to maint...

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