The Progressive Senate Group – The Progressives

In the Senate

Second reading of Bill C-22, Canada Disability Benefit Bill

March 7, 2023

Hon. Wanda Thomas Bernard: Honourable senators, I acknowledge that we are currently on the traditional unceded territory of the Anishinaabe Algonquin…

Ministerial Question Period: Elver Fishery

March 7, 2023

Author: The Hon. Brian Francis

Category: Question Period

Hon. Brian Francis: Minister Murray, in line with Recommendation 2 of the report titled Peace on the Water, in 2022 and 2023…

Ministerial Question Period: Anti-racism Training

March 7, 2023

Author: The Hon. Brian Francis

Category: Question Period

Hon. Brian Francis: Minister Murray, for decades, First Nations in Atlantic Canada have been subject to extensive government surveillance, policing and…

Ministerial Question Period: High Seas Treaty

March 7, 2023

Author: The Hon. Patricia Bovey (retired)

Category: Question Period

Hon. Patricia Bovey: Welcome, minister. As Senator Coyle has said, the High Seas Treaty agreed to last week at the UN…

Ministerial Question Period: Rights-Based Fisheries

March 7, 2023

Author: The Hon. Brian Francis

Category: Question Period

Hon. Brian Francis: Minister Murray, in 1999, the Supreme Court of Canada affirmed that the Mi’kmaq, Wolastoquey and Peskotomuhkati First Nations…

The Late Peter A. Herrndorf, C.C., O.Ont.
The Late Gordon Edward Pinsent, C.C.

March 7, 2023

Author: The Hon. Patricia Bovey (retired)

Category: Statements

Hon. Patricia Bovey: Honourable senators, Canada recently lost two internationally and nationally acclaimed icons — both with Winnipeg roots — Peter Herrndorf and…