Marilou McPhedran resigns from senators’ group before hearing on her expulsion

OTTAWA — A senator resigned Monday from the upper chamber’s biggest parliamentary group, before a hearing took place to consider kicking her out.

Sen. Marilou McPhedran resigned from the Independent Senators’ Group (ISG) because she did not think she would receive a fair hearing.

McPhedran says in a resignation letter to the ISG secretariat that the hearing “seems preordained in its negative outcome for me.”

A hearing set up to consider expelling her was set up after she sent an email in September to all Senators questioning how the chamber’s ethics code was being applied.