Senator Lynn Beyak no longer has a role in the Conservative caucus, Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said earlier this week, but he stopped short of forcing her out. Carolyn Bennett, the government’s Crown-Indigenous relations minister, made the comments about Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak during the daily question period Tuesday in response to a question from a Liberal back bench. “The senator’s ongoing, offensive comments regarding Indigenous people are ill-informed, hurtful, and simply wrong,” Bennett said. Article Continued BelowHe said he didn’t agree with her comments and that she didn’t speak for the party or the caucus. Those comments ultimately prompted Scheer’s predecessor, former interim leader Rona Ambrose, to remove her from the Senate’s Aboriginal affairs committee.

Source: thestar September 19, 2017 23:37 UTC