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Sen. Lynn Beyak<\/a> should be suspended again without pay, the Senate\u2019s ethics committee recommended Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyak\u2019s\n colleagues ousted her from the upper chamber temporarily last spring \nafter condemning as racist several letters she had posted to her \nwebsite.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Ontario senator had published letters supporting her \nview that some Indigenous people had had positive experiences in \nresidential schools, which the Truth and Reconciliation Commission \nconcluded caused generations of First Nations, Metis and Inuit children \nto suffer abuse and alienation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\tREAD MORE: \t\t\t\n\t\t\t\tRacist letters about Indigenous Peoples removed from Sen. Lynn Beyak\u2019s website\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/strong>\n\t\t<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the letters went beyond that, suggesting Indigenous people or their cultures are inferior.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Beyak\u2019s suspension ended automatically when Parliament was dissolved for the federal election last fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attempts\n to reach Beyak through her lawyer and her Senate office weren\u2019t \nimmediately successful Friday. In November, Beyak said she had met all \nthe conditions to return to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n She had removed the letters \nthe ethics committee found most objectionable from her website, taken a \nbriefing on the role of a senator, completed education programs on \nIndigenous history and delivered an apology, she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI deeply respect the Senate and love working with my Senate \ncolleagues. I pledge myself to uphold the highest standards of conduct \nand look forward to working hard for all of the people of Ontario and \nCanada,\u201d Beyak wrote in a statement at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the committee concluded in a report released Friday that Beyak \ndid not meet the conditions set out for her return, calling an apology \nshe delivered insufficient and her participation in educational programs\n on racism towards Indigenous Peoples in Canada incomplete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \ncommittee agreed that the letters had been taken down and that Beyak had\n been briefed on her duties as a senator. But it wasn\u2019t satisfied that \nshe had taken her education on Indigenous history seriously.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOn \nthe one hand, Sen. Beyak can rightfully assert that she attempted to \ncomplete the training that was provided to her,\u201d the report says. \u201cOn \nthe other, the training provider indicated that Sen. Beyak failed to \nexhibit any willingness to learn and because of this the training \nprovider did not provide the agreed-upon instruction in its entirety.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n The committee also found that Beyak\u2019s one-sentence apology for having\n been found in breach of Senate rules wasn\u2019t good enough. The senators \n\u201ccannot accept an apology that fails to show awareness of the wrong, \nfails to accept responsibility for the wrong, fails to sincerely \napologize, fails to atone for past actions and fails to commit to take \naction in order to rectify the situation,\u201d they wrote.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Senate Ethics Committee Recommends Sen.\u00a0 Lynn\u00a0 Beyak Be Suspended Again & Sent Back to Political Re-education Camp Senate Ethics Committee Recommends Sen. Beyak Be Suspended Again & Sent Back to Political Re=education CampThe following story shows just how far down … Continue reading