Carney ‘tweaking’ Senate model, not shifting to partisan approach, say Senators  

'There is no moral superiority in never having participated in democratic political life,' says ISG Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain after Carney tapped his principal secretary, Tom Pitfield, for the Upper Chamber.
CSG Senator Tony Ince, left, ISG Senator Raymonde Saint-Germain, centre, and PSG Senator Andrew Cardozo said Carney's appointments to the Senate, which include two partisan figures, aren't a reversion to an more partisan Senate model.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first batch of Senate appointments—which include a formerly sitting Conservative MP and a then-principal secretary to the Prime Minister’s Office—don’t mark a return to a more pre-Trudeau partisan model, say Senators across groups. ...

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