Lynn Beyak Racist Letters
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Lynn Beyak announces she’s leaving the Senate, continues residential school defenceSenator Lynn Beyak has repeatedly come under fire for arguing residential schools provided a positive experience for Indigenous Canadians, despite horrific abuse.CanadaJan 25, 2021
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‘Divisive and unacceptable’: Sen. Lynn Beyak apologizes for racist Indigenous lettersThe letters she received and published online, which were in support of Canada's residential school system, also included suggestions that Indigenous Peoples and their culture were inferior.CanadaFeb 25, 2020
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Métis leader says Sen. Lynn Beyak should resign for claiming to be IndigenousThe reported comments were made when Beyak identified herself as Metis and reasoned this was because her parents adopted an Indigenous child, who became her sister.CanadaFeb 4, 2020
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Ontario Sen. Lynn Beyak should be suspended again: ethics committeeLynn Beyak's colleagues ousted her from the upper chamber temporarily last spring after condemning as racist several letters she had posted to her website.CanadaJan 31, 2020
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Lynn Beyak suspended from Senate after refusing to remove racist letters from websiteOntario-based Sen. Lynn Beyak has been suspended from the Senate after failing take racially charged letters about Indigenous People on her website.CanadaMay 9, 2019
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Lynn Beyak should be suspended for refusal to remove ‘racist’ letters, ethics committee urges SenateThe committee's report also says the Senate administration should be directed to immediately remove five letters from her website if she won't remove them herself.CanadaApr 30, 2019
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Lynn Beyak’s ‘racist’ letters are still online — a week after she was ordered to remove themThe letters, which Beyak posted on her official government website, were called racist by Senate ethics officer Pierre Legault.CanadaMar 29, 2019
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Lynn Beyak broke Senate’s code of conduct by posting racist letters online, ethics officer saysSen. Lynn Beyak violated the Senate's conflict-of-interest code by posting racist letters about Indigenous people.CanadaMar 20, 2019
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Senators call for ethics probe into letters on Lynn Beyak’s websiteA group of independent senators is calling for an investigation into whether letters posted this fall on Sen. Lynn Beyak's website violated the Red Chamber's ethics rules.CanadaJan 9, 2018
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Sen. Lynn Beyak defends racist letters as ‘free speech,’ attacks Andrew Scheer for ousterSen. Lynn Beyak, who was ousted from the Conservative caucus last week over racist letters she posted to her parliamentary website, is doubling down in her own defence and blasting Andrew Scheer as "inexperienced" and hampered by "political correctness."CanadaJan 8, 2018
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