New group to examine changes to senate

March 10, 2016, Alberta Senator Elaine McCoy, a former PC provincial cabinet minister, is among six senators who have formed an independent, non-partisan working group “the objective (of which) is to promote a properly functioning independent, non-partisan Senate,” according to a news release issued Thursday. The group is calling for a change from “partisanship that has been blindly one-sided and lacked impartiality” to a body of government that reviews and revises legislation in an independent, non-partisan manner. Joining McCoy are senators Diane Bellemare, Jacques Demers, Pierrette Ringuette, Michel Rivard and John Wallace.