Wallace felt the Senate became a rubber stamp for the Conservative government, even when flawed legislation came across their desks.
Six senators fed up with partisanship form new ‘working group’
OTTAWA – Fed up with party politics in the Senate, six independent senators are teaming up and going out on their own to push for change from within the upper chamber.
“Partisanship that has been blindly one-sided and lacked impartiality has seriously eroded the credibility and reputation of the Senate,” wrote the group in a release issued Thursday morning.
They call themselves a “working group,” not a caucus.
The group includes four ex-Conservatives (Sen. Jacques Demers, Sen. Diane Bellemare, Sen. Michel Rivard, Sen. John Wallace) and one former Liberal (Sen. Pierrette Ringuette). Bellemare and Rivard just announced they were leaving the Conservative Senate caucus earlier in the week.
The other member of the group is Sen. Elaine McCoy, who identifies herself as an Independent Progressive-Conservative.
The statement from the group calls the existing rules and practices of the Senate “archaic.”
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