Honourable senators, I am grateful to be back to health following my third bout of COVID, which prevented me from participating in some recent important debates in this chamber. I am grateful to Senator Lankin for her alert that this motion was coming today, and I thank Senator Bellemare for her invitation to discuss what, in my experience, is entrenched discrimination against unaffiliated senators, exacerbated in the rules adopted while I had to be absent.
To Senator David Richards, with today’s announcement, we welcome you to our little unaffiliated corner of the chamber.
Colleagues, you may recall that in the debate on the recent Senate Rules changes, I asked Senator Plett a question about equality among all senators. His assurance that I was his equal put me in mind of the great philosopher Aristotle, who was not a fan of democracy and is attributed with saying, “To be the same is to be entitled to the same; to be different is to be treated differently.”
As an unaffiliated senator, I am different from you, Senator Plett, and I am treated differently.
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