(OTTAWA) Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday that two new independent senators from the Atlantic provinces will join the upper house.
Jane MacAdam, a former auditor general of Prince Edward Island with more than 40 years of experience in the field, will represent that province in the Senate, along with three other colleagues.
Business leader Iris Petten, whose background is focused on the fishing industry, will be one of six senators representing Newfoundland and Labrador in the upper house. Ms. Petten served as chair of Memorial University’s board of trustees for three terms, from 2013 to 2022.
The appointments of these two women were recommended by the Independent Advisory Board for Senate Appointments, an independent merit-based process that Mr. Trudeau established at the start of his first term in 2015.
A total of 68 people have now been appointed to the Senate through this process. Fourteen other seats, out of 105, remain vacant in the Senate — including one in Quebec, two in Ontario and three in New Brunswick.
