Canada’s Senate: Chamber of disrepute
After months of scandals, could it finally be time to scrap the Senate? John Geddes reports
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John Geddes
John Geddes is Ottawa bureau chief at Maclean’s and has covered federal politics and policy for more than two decades. He also writes regularly about art.
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