Senate Modernization - Page 2 of 2

How to build on the Senate’s renewal process

F. Leslie Seidle Policy Options November 6, 2018 Senate Modernization

"As of October 31, 2018, 56 percent of the senators appointed under Trudeau were women and 16 percent were Indigenous. As a result, 44 percent of the 105 Senate seats are filled by women and 11 percent by Indigenous people."

Question to Minister Gould: Amending the Parliament of Canada Act

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada October 24, 2018 Democracy, Question Period, Senate Modernization

"As we all know, the Parliament of Canada Act is out of step with the increasing independence of the Senate. The independent senators are now the largest group in the Senate, but the Act doesn't reflect this."

SPEECH: Modernizing Question Period in the Senate

Ratna Omidvar Senate of Canada April 25, 2018 Question Period, Senate Modernization

"As the Senate's small screen debut comes closer, it is our responsibility, I feel, to determine how our chamber proceedings ought to be presented to the public. Not only are we looking to change the channel on how the Senate is perceived, we’re also looking to turn up the volume on this institution’s best features."

The Senate’s champion of diversity

Mackenzie Scrimshaw iPolitics October 15, 2016 Bill C-6, Canada-US relations, charities, Diversity, immigration, refugees, Senate Modernization

The senator sat down with iPolitics on October 6 in a vacant office at the University of Ottawa’s Fauteux Building after giving a keynote speech to a group of law students, interested in refugee law, from across Canada. The address was part of the first student-led conference of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers.