The 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.

The 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.

Lynn Beyak's colleagues ousted her from the upper chamber temporarily last spring after condemning as racist several letters she had posted to her website.

Senate officials erased the letters posted online after Beyak refused to do so herself.

Ontario-based Sen. Lynn Beyak has been suspended from the Senate after failing take racially charged letters about Indigenous People on her website.

The 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.

The letters, which Beyak posted on her official government website, were called racist by Senate ethics officer Pierre Legault.

Sen. 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."

Scheer removed Sen. Beyak from the Conservative National Caucus following a Global News report which found Beyak's website to have published letters containing language offensive to Indigenous people.

As mayors of some of Canada's biggest cities call for the resignation of a controversial senator, the head of a local advocacy group says that's the best case scenario, but unlikely.