Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has appointed Allister Surette from Nova Scotia and Nancy Karetak-Lindell from Nunavut as senators. Both will be independent senators.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed two new senators on Thursday — Allister Surette for Nova Scotia and Nancy Karetak-Lindell for Nunavut. Surette is a former Nova Scotia MLA and cabinet minister. He was also president and vice-chancellor of the Université Sainte-Anne, a French-language university in Church Point, N.S.
Karetak-Lindell was elected to Parliament in 1997 after playing a key role in negotiations to establish Nunavut as its own political riding two years before it achieved status as a territory. Before that, the riding was called Nunatsiaq. She is also a member of the Order of Canada and a former president of the Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada. Both Karetak-Lindell and Surette will sit as independent senators and were appointed on the recommendation of an independent advisory board — but their appointments follow a recent trend of Trudeau choosing senators who have past Liberal ties. Karetak-Lindell was a member of the Liberal Party when she was an MP and Surette was a member of the Nova Scotia Liberal Party as an MLA
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