Senators Pay Tribute to the Victims of London, Ont., Attack – June 8, 2021
Senators Marc Gold (the government representative in the Senate), Don Plett (the leader of the Opposition in the Senate), Yuen Pau Woo (the facilitator of the Independent Senators Group), Scott Tannas (the leader of the Canadian Senators Group), and Jane Cordy (the leader of the Progressive Senate Group) pay tribute to the victims of the June 6, 2021, attack on a Muslim family in London, Ontario. Four members of the family were killed and a fifth, a nine-year-old boy, was seriously injured when they were struck by a pickup truck driven by a 20-year-old man. Police have said that it was a targeted attack motivated by hate.
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Four senators have been chosen to sit on the committee by three of the four Senate groups.
But they re all waiting for the Conservative Senate caucus to name its single member, despite a unanimously passed motion requiring all Senate groups to choose their members by the end of the day last Friday.
The delay revolves around a dispute over who the Senate s committee co-chair should be.
Sen. Pierre Dalphond, a former judge chosen to represent the Progressive Senate Group on the committee, says Conservative Senate Leader Don Plett is refusing to name the Tory senator unless there s a guarantee that person will also be named committee co-chair an assurance other Senate groups are not prepared to give.
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In the matter of Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou, Senator Yuen Pau Woo, leader of the Independent Senators Group in Canada, is urging the government to use Canada s Extradition Act which specifically allows the justice minister to terminate extradition proceedings at any time.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his justice minister, David Lametti, have maintained that the minister may intervene only after the court has ruled on the Meng case.
Senate wrangling over co-chair holds up parliamentary review of assisted dying law
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The Senate of Canada building and Senate Chamber are pictured in Ottawa on Monday, Feb. 18, 2019. A long-awaited, and legally required parliamentary review of Canada s medically assisted dying regime is set to go except for the Conservative Senate caucus, which has yet to name its member of the committee. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick
OTTAWA – Wrangling in the Senate over who will co-chair a special joint committee is holding up the start of a long-awaited, legally required, parliamentary review of Canada’s assisted dying regime.
The various parties in the House of Commons have chosen 10 MPs to sit on the committee, which is to examine whether medical assistance in dying should be expanded to include mature minors and advance requests, among other important issues.