Police chief among 7 appointed to Senate
Posted January 6, 2012 5:29 pm.
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Ottawa’s chief of police, a former Conservative MP and the first woman electee to the upper chamber are among seven new Conservative Senate appointees.
Vern White, who has led the Ottawa police for almost five years, had previously been touted as a candidate for RCMP commissioner — but Prime Minister Stephen Harper tabbed him instead for a Senate seat.
Betty Unger, who fills a vacancy in Alberta, was the choice of more than 300,000 people for a Senate seat in a 2004 ballot in that province.
Norman Doyle, who will represent Newfoundland and Labrador, spent 12 years as Conservative MP for St. John’s East.
The other new senators are JoAnne Buth of Manitoba, president of the Canola Council of Canada, Ghislain Maltais of Quebec, where he was a Conservative party organizer, and Asha Seth, a medical doctor and philanthropist from Toronto.
Harper also announced his intention to appoint to the Senate former policeman and failed Conservative candidate Jean-Guy Dagenais of Quebec.
