Senator Pat Carney to Retire from Senate of Canada on January 31, 2008
Senator Pat Carney has announced that, after 25 years in Parliament, she will take early retirement from
the Senate on January 31, 2008.
Senator Carney has stated that she is in good health, and that while her statutory term of office does
not end until 2010, it is time to focus on her family, friends and writing.
“It has been my great privilege to serve British Columbia and Canada in Parliament. I have enjoyed
the challenges and have been sustained by the interest and support of my constituents as an MP and by the coastal communities,
aboriginal and non-aboriginal, which I have served as a B.C. Senator. I am also honoured to have served four Conservative
Prime Ministers in a number of roles over the last 25 years,” said Carney.
Since she was first elected to the House of Commons in 1980 as MP for Vancouver Centre, Senator Carney
has held a number of senior positions, including Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources, Minister of International Trade,
and President of the Treasury Board. Since her appointment to the Senate in 1990, Senator Pat has also served as a member
of several Senate Standing Committees, including as Chair of the Energy, the Environment and Natural Resources Committee,
Deputy Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, and co-chair the Ad Hoc Parliamentary Committee on Lightstations.
Senator Carney’s priority before retiring in January is to re-introduce two private members bills
that died on the order paper with September’s prorogation: Bill S-215, An Act to Protect Heritage Lighthouses, (formerly
Bill S-220); and Bill S-217, An Act to amend the International Boundary Waters Treaty Act (bulk water removal) (formerly
Bill S-225). For more information about these bills, please visit “Senator Pat’s
Priorities”.
To read more about Senator Carney’s retirement and her contributions as Senator for British Columbia
and MP for Vancouver Centre, please see her October 11 Press Release, “Pat
Carney Retires from Senate”.
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Welcome to my web site!
As Senator for British Columbia, my responsibility is to represent the views and concerns of British Columbians
during the legislative process in the Canadian Senate.
This site is designed to give you access to information on my activities in the Senate and to encourage
your response.
We've opened the site with a page on The Senate, which answers
questions many of you have asked about the Red Chamber, describes the legislation currently in the Senate, tells you about
BC's senators, and gives links to other Senate sites.
In Senator Pat's Priorities, you'll find my latest speeches
and articles, and other information on the issues that are important to me. Senator
Pat's Archives contains speeches, committee reports, my newsletter "Keeping in Touch", and other material
from my past work in the Senate.
NEW! I have also included a new page on my work over the past year with communities along B.C.'s coast
. Please see News from BC's Coastal Communities.
Your Ideas is a page devoted to the ideas and views that British
Columbians have communicated with me. We'll be updating this page on an on-going basis, so write me with your ideas
and let Ottawa know what you think!
I'm also including my Biography and information about my
work outside the Senate, ways you can Contact Me, and Parliamentary
Links that give you access to Canadian federal and provincial government sites.
We hope this site is accessible, informative and helpful. If you have any comments or suggestions
about the site, please contact me so that I can update it with your needs in mind.
I look forward to hearing from you.
