Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appoints six new senators for Quebec

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has announced six new senators to fill vacancies in Quebec, including a doctor, an environmental scientist and a mayor.

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Rosa Galvez is a professor at Laval University and is originally from Peru who has focused much of her research on pollution.

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Other appointees include Eric Forest, the mayor of Rimouski and Dr. Marie-Françoise Mégie, a longtime family physician and professor at the Université de Montréal.

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Renée Dupuis is an influential human rights and indigenous issues lawyer who won the Governor General’s award in 2001 for her non-fiction book, “Justice for Canada’s Aboriginal Peoples.”

Trudeau has also nominated Marc Gold, a prominent member of the Jewish community and former professor, along with Raymonde Saint-Germain, a public servant with the Government of Quebec.

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The appointees named this month were selected through an application process that involved more than 2,700 applicants who were screened by an advisory board that came up with a short list for each seat.