CANADA
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OTTAWA – Conservative Sen. Lynn Beyak, who famously declared “some good” came out of Canada’s residential schools, has been removed from the Senate’s committee on aboriginal peoples.
A spokesperson for interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose says the senator’s controversial comments do not reflect the party’s position on residential schools.
Earlier this week, an indigenous senator who sits on the committee said she would boycott its meetings as long as Beyak was still a member.
Sen. Sandra Lovelace Nicholas says she was “shocked and dismayed” by her Senate colleague’s remarks
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