Minister Bennett disappointed that senator Lynn Beyak could still crack down

News 5 January, 2018

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Carolyn Bennett

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Friday, 5 January 2018 14:25

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OTTAWA – The canadian minister of aboriginal Affairs expressed its disappointment Friday that the controversial senator Lynn Beyak enjoy further privileges related to his position, after his ejection from the conservative caucus.

“We find it disappointing that the leadership and the caucus, conservatives continue to allow the senator Beyak to use his position in the Senate, and its resources, to marry his opinions ill-informed and offensive on the history of Canada,” said Carolyn Bennett, in an official statement.

The office of the minister had not responded in the early afternoon to a request for clarification as to whether Ms. Bennett believed that Lynn Beyak does not should simply serve in the Senate.

Lynn Beyak has been excluded from the conservative caucus in the Senate and, therefore, the national caucus of the conservative Party of Canada, Thursday night.

Named by the conservatives in 2013, the senator had first created the controversy in march by saying that “good things” had happened in the residential schools. She was handed a coat in September, suggesting in a letter that the First Nations should share their card-aboriginal for the canadian citizenship and thus integrate into the society.

The straw that broke the camel’s back among conservatives earlier this year, is a series of publications on the website of the senator, whose letters racist about aboriginal people.

“I asked the senator to remove this content from its web site. She refused,” said Thursday night the leader of the conservatives Andrew Scheer in a statement explaining the dismissal of Ms. Beyak.

According to the minister Bennett, that position is clearly not far enough. “His appointment by the conservatives, he [allows you] to continue to use parliamentary resources to validate the opinions of those who refuse to accept the truth and spread the misinformation that continues to feed racism in this country,” she said in her statement.