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Senate leaders are “in the dark” on an explosive national security report that directly implicates parliamentarians, leaving the Red Chamber with “no roadmap on what to do,” says Canadian Senators Group Leader Scott Tannas.
Short of some type of changes being implemented along those lines, the Senate is kind of left in the dark about whether any Senators are implicated here.” Dalphond said the PSG charter doesn’t have a mechanism for removing members, in contrast to the ISG—with whom he sat from June 2018 to May 2020—which Dalphond said has a process for expulsion. And, as an appointed Chamber, he noted Senators don’t have many ways to force someone to retire, which is mandatory once a person turns 75 years old.
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