 | Reflecting on Our Past and Embracing Our Future: A Senate Initiative for Canada Subjects: Canada -- Social conditions; Civil rights -- Canada; Canada -- Politics and government; Canada -- Relations; Canada. Parliament; A clear-eyed look at the Senate's original purpose and contemporary role in Canada. The Honourable Serge Joyal is a lawyer, constitutionalist, and former minister and MP who was appointed to the Senate in 1997. The Honourable Judith Seidman is an epidemiologist, health researcher, and social services advisor, who was appointed to the Senate in 2009. |
