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Jean T. Fournier

Jean Fournier is the Senate's former ethics officer.

ISG Senators should create a legitimate expense oversight committee, now

  • With its new majority, the Independent Senators Group should quickly set up an oversight body for Senators’ expenses, with three external members and two Senators.
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 28, 2019
Independent Senator Yuen Pau Woo is the facilitator at the helm of the largest group in the Senate, the Independent Senators Group. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

ISG Senators should create a legitimate expense oversight committee, now

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 28, 2019
  • With its new majority, the Independent Senators Group should quickly set up an oversight body for Senators’ expenses, with three external members and two Senators.

ISG Senators should create a legitimate expense oversight committee, now

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 28, 2019
  • With its new majority, the Independent Senators Group should quickly set up an oversight body for Senators’ expenses, with three external members and two Senators.
Independent Senator Yuen Pau Woo is the facilitator at the helm of the largest group in the Senate, the Independent Senators Group. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Ford should do the right thing, show people he cares

  • OTTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford should do the right thing and show people he cares. He should reconsider cuts to French-language services affecting Ontario’s 600,000 francophones, including
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 14, 2019
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's attorney general and minister responsible for francophone affairs. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Ford should do the right thing, show people he cares

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 14, 2019
  • OTTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford should do the right thing and show people he cares. He should reconsider cuts to French-language services affecting Ontario’s 600,000 francophones, including

Ford should do the right thing, show people he cares

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 14, 2019
  • OTTAWA—Ontario Premier Doug Ford should do the right thing and show people he cares. He should reconsider cuts to French-language services affecting Ontario’s 600,000 francophones, including
Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney, Ontario's attorney general and minister responsible for francophone affairs. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

Dear ISG Senators, don’t back down, and stand your ground

  • OTTAWA—It’s now up to Independent Senators to take action and bring about real and comprehensive Senate reform. Senate reform is not only about the adoption
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | October 8, 2018
Members of the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, pictured on Oct. 3, 2018, on the Hill. It’s now up to Independent Senators to take action and bring about real and comprehensive Senate reform overall in the Upper Chamber, writes Jean Fournier. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Dear ISG Senators, don’t back down, and stand your ground

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | October 8, 2018
  • OTTAWA—It’s now up to Independent Senators to take action and bring about real and comprehensive Senate reform. Senate reform is not only about the adoption

Dear ISG Senators, don’t back down, and stand your ground

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | October 8, 2018
  • OTTAWA—It’s now up to Independent Senators to take action and bring about real and comprehensive Senate reform. Senate reform is not only about the adoption
Members of the Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, pictured on Oct. 3, 2018, on the Hill. It’s now up to Independent Senators to take action and bring about real and comprehensive Senate reform overall in the Upper Chamber, writes Jean Fournier. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada’s capital city is now officially bilingual

  • OTTAWA—What better way to mark the end of an unforgettable year of celebrations, events, and activities of all kinds across our country and the beginning of
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 29, 2018
Ottawa mayor Jim Watson, pictured on Oct. 12, 2017, at the opening of Terry 'Aislin' Mosher's exhibition of editorial cartoons 'Trudeau to Trudeau' at Ottawa City Hall. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Canada’s capital city is now officially bilingual

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 29, 2018
  • OTTAWA—What better way to mark the end of an unforgettable year of celebrations, events, and activities of all kinds across our country and the beginning of

Canada’s capital city is now officially bilingual

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 29, 2018
  • OTTAWA—What better way to mark the end of an unforgettable year of celebrations, events, and activities of all kinds across our country and the beginning of
Ottawa mayor Jim Watson, pictured on Oct. 12, 2017, at the opening of Terry 'Aislin' Mosher's exhibition of editorial cartoons 'Trudeau to Trudeau' at Ottawa City Hall. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Enough is enough, new Senate better get its act together

  • OTTAWA—Eighteen months ago, I wrote a lengthy article in these pages titled “Talk is cheap, time to fix Senate rules.” This was a few months after
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | November 13, 2017
Senate Speaker George Furey, pictured in this file photo. Insularity, complacency and tardiness are the Senate’s worst enemies and the Senate has to change, writes former Senate ethics officer Jean Fournier. The Hill Times file photograph

Enough is enough, new Senate better get its act together

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | November 13, 2017
  • OTTAWA—Eighteen months ago, I wrote a lengthy article in these pages titled “Talk is cheap, time to fix Senate rules.” This was a few months after

Enough is enough, new Senate better get its act together

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | November 13, 2017
  • OTTAWA—Eighteen months ago, I wrote a lengthy article in these pages titled “Talk is cheap, time to fix Senate rules.” This was a few months after
Senate Speaker George Furey, pictured in this file photo. Insularity, complacency and tardiness are the Senate’s worst enemies and the Senate has to change, writes former Senate ethics officer Jean Fournier. The Hill Times file photograph

Canada’s capital city should be bilingual

  • Canada as a country with two constitutionally entrenched official languages, a bilingual Parliament, a bilingual federal government and bilingual federal courts, should also have a bilingual capital city. Seems simple
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | April 17, 2017
Would John A. Macdonald, Georges-Etienne Cartier, and the 34 other Fathers of Confederation who attended the weeklong Charlottetown Conference, the three weeklong Quebec Conference in 1864 ( known as 'the meeting that made Canada,') and the London Conference in 1866—have proposed or knowingly accepted that the capital of the new country called Canada, would be an officially unilingual English city? Of course not. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Canada’s capital city should be bilingual

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | April 17, 2017
  • Canada as a country with two constitutionally entrenched official languages, a bilingual Parliament, a bilingual federal government and bilingual federal courts, should also have a bilingual capital city. Seems simple

Canada’s capital city should be bilingual

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | April 17, 2017
  • Canada as a country with two constitutionally entrenched official languages, a bilingual Parliament, a bilingual federal government and bilingual federal courts, should also have a bilingual capital city. Seems simple
Would John A. Macdonald, Georges-Etienne Cartier, and the 34 other Fathers of Confederation who attended the weeklong Charlottetown Conference, the three weeklong Quebec Conference in 1864 ( known as 'the meeting that made Canada,') and the London Conference in 1866—have proposed or knowingly accepted that the capital of the new country called Canada, would be an officially unilingual English city? Of course not. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

House Electoral Reform Committee did fail us, so it’s time for government to decide

  • OTTAWA—Prior to the 2015 election, the Liberal Party committed to having a new voting system in place before the next general election expected in 2019
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 9, 2017
It's not on: The Special House Electoral Committee failed to rise above petty mischief and partisanship. They blew their chance to make a difference and punted the issue back to the government, writes Jean Fournier. Bloc MP Luc Thériault, left, Conservative MP Scott Reid, Liberal MP and chair Francis Scarpaleggia, and NDP MP Nathan Cullen, pictured Dec. 1, 2016 at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

House Electoral Reform Committee did fail us, so it’s time for government to decide

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 9, 2017
  • OTTAWA—Prior to the 2015 election, the Liberal Party committed to having a new voting system in place before the next general election expected in 2019

House Electoral Reform Committee did fail us, so it’s time for government to decide

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | January 9, 2017
  • OTTAWA—Prior to the 2015 election, the Liberal Party committed to having a new voting system in place before the next general election expected in 2019
It's not on: The Special House Electoral Committee failed to rise above petty mischief and partisanship. They blew their chance to make a difference and punted the issue back to the government, writes Jean Fournier. Bloc MP Luc Thériault, left, Conservative MP Scott Reid, Liberal MP and chair Francis Scarpaleggia, and NDP MP Nathan Cullen, pictured Dec. 1, 2016 at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Talk is cheap, time to fix Senate’s rules

  • OTTAWA—With the recent appointment of seven distinguished and non-partisan Senators, chosen from a short list of 25 people recommended to the prime minister by the
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | June 13, 2016
The responsibility for overseeing Senators' expenses should be separated from those of the Standing Senate Committee on Internal Economy, headed by Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos, and assumed by a committee chaired by the Speaker of the Senate with outside members who have relevant experience. The standing committee is currently in a potential conflict of interest when it advises on, and approves, or otherwise, the expense claims of its own members or of other Senators. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

Talk is cheap, time to fix Senate’s rules

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | June 13, 2016
  • OTTAWA—With the recent appointment of seven distinguished and non-partisan Senators, chosen from a short list of 25 people recommended to the prime minister by the

Talk is cheap, time to fix Senate’s rules

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | June 13, 2016
  • OTTAWA—With the recent appointment of seven distinguished and non-partisan Senators, chosen from a short list of 25 people recommended to the prime minister by the
The responsibility for overseeing Senators' expenses should be separated from those of the Standing Senate Committee on Internal Economy, headed by Conservative Sen. Leo Housakos, and assumed by a committee chaired by the Speaker of the Senate with outside members who have relevant experience. The standing committee is currently in a potential conflict of interest when it advises on, and approves, or otherwise, the expense claims of its own members or of other Senators. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright

Trudeau’s keeping his word on Senate, now it’s up to Senators

  • At long last, after 150 years of largely partisan appointments to the Senate by successive prime ministers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced the appointment
Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | March 28, 2016
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement on the seven new Senators two weeks ago was not a routine announcement, writes Jean Fournier. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Trudeau’s keeping his word on Senate, now it’s up to Senators

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | March 28, 2016
  • At long last, after 150 years of largely partisan appointments to the Senate by successive prime ministers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced the appointment

Trudeau’s keeping his word on Senate, now it’s up to Senators

Opinion | BY JEAN T. FOURNIER | March 28, 2016
  • At long last, after 150 years of largely partisan appointments to the Senate by successive prime ministers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently announced the appointment
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement on the seven new Senators two weeks ago was not a routine announcement, writes Jean Fournier. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright
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