The letters are part of an effort Sen. Lynn Beyak has made to promote the positive side of residential schools for Indigenous children
OTTAWA — The Senate’s ethics committee recommended Tuesday that Sen. Lynn Beyak be suspended without pay until the next election over letters about Indigenous Peoples she has posted to her website.
The ethics committee’s findings come after it was tasked with recommending remedial measures or sanctions for Beyak based on findings by the Senate’s ethics officer. Pierre Legault reported in March that the Ontario senator breached two sections of a code of conduct for senators by posting racist letters on her Senate website.
Since Beyak posted the letters, Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett has repeatedly tweeted to urge Beyak to remove them. Conservative Sen. Raynell Andreychuk, the committee chair, said the panel was troubled by Beyak’s failure to acknowledge the letters were racist and disturbed by her unwillingness to recognize the harm caused by posting them.
As parliamentarians, senators hold a unique public office that requires them to confront racism without reservation to ensure the integrity of the instruction, she said.
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