Senate Modernization: Will Senator Tannas Table a Motion to Address the Problem of the Senate Being Rushed?
Senator Omidvar asked Senator Tannas if he will table a motion on the issue of Senators being rushed to pass legislation.
Senate Modernization
Press Release: Gender Parity in Canada’s Upper Chamber
Senator Lankin comments on the importance of maintaining gender parity in the Senate of Canada.
The Renewed Canadian Senate
Senator Omidvar joined the Policy Options podcast to reflect on the Senate institution and her non-partisan appointment.
OPINION: The Senate Should Do Its Job – and Respect Canadian Voters
Read an excerpt from Hugh Segal's op-ed discussing the role of the Senate in assessing government legislation.
How to build on the Senate’s renewal process
"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
"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
"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
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.