Haiti-born engineer named as next senator from Quebec

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named a civil engineer who grew up in Haiti as the next senator from Quebec.

Suze Youance will sit as an independent in the upper chamber.

She immigrated to Canada from Haiti in 2006, having spent more than a decade on Canadian aid projects based out of Port-au-Prince.

Youance settled in Montreal where she taught at the École de technologie supérieure.