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Looks like Truedope strong and wild is going back on another promise to get rid of the senate. He elected 7 new senators. Just last year he was going on about getting rid of the Senate.
>A Paralympic gold medallist and an esteemed jurist who led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission into residential schools have been appointed to the Senate.
>Chantal Petitclerc and Murray Sinclair are among seven new senators named by the Liberal government today.
Others include:
> ■Peter Harder, a former bureaucrat who led Justin Trudeau's transition team.
> ■Raymonde Gagné, former president of Manitoba's Université de Saint-Boniface.
> ■Frances Lankin, a former Ontario NDP cabinet minister and a national security expert.
> ■Ratna Omidvar, executive director at Ryerson University's Global Diversity Exchange.
> ■André Pratte, editorial writer at La Presse.
> Petitclerc, a 14-time Paralympic gold medallist and world-record-holding wheelchair racer, was Canada's chef de mission at the 2014 Commonwealth Games — the first time a Paralympic athlete had held that post. She is also Canada's chef de mission for the Rio Paralympics in September 2016.
She tweeted, "There we go: feeling humbled."
> Ontario appointee Omidvar told CBC News she was "stunned into silence" when she received the call from Trudeau.
> "The prime minister has asked, and I have accepted to be a senator who sits as an independent and I'm excited to sit as an independent because it means I can vote with my values," she said. "And I can review the issues that come before the Senate not in a partisan or political way but based on the way I have experienced the lives of people."
> A news released from the Prime Minister's Office described the senators as "independent" and said Harder will serve as the "government representative" in the Senate.
"The government is today taking further concrete steps to follow through on its commitment to reform the Senate, restore public trust, and bring an end to partisanship in the appointments process," he said in a statement.
> He added that today's appointments will "help advance the important objective to transform the Senate into a less partisan and more independent institution that can perform its fundamental roles in the legislative process more effectively."
> Back in January, the Liberals named an advisory board to help Prime Minister Justin Trudeau make his picks for the Red Chamber.