Senator Jim Quinn has joined the Conservative Senate caucus after serving just over five years as an independent from New Brunswick.
Quinn was first appointed in June 2021 on the advice of then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and had been affiliated with the non-partisan Canadian Senators Group before joining the Tory Senate Caucus.
Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Conservative Senator Leo Housakos, posted a note of welcome to Quinn July 8.
“Since his appointment to the Senate in 2021, Senator Quinn has brought decades of experience in the Canadian Coast Guard, the federal public service, and as President and CEO of Port Saint John to his work in the Upper Chamber,” Housakos wrote….