Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appoints six new senators for Ontario
OTTAWA — Ontario Provincial Police commissioner Vince Hawkes uses one word to describe what his predecessor Gwen Boniface will bring to the Senate: “integrity.”
It might not be the first word many critics of the upper chamber — and perhaps many Canadians — would use in describing a candidate for a Senate seat.
But it is what Boniface brought to the table in her work as Ontario’s highest-ranked provincial police officer, said Hawkes, citing the attribute as sorely needed in a place that been under intense public scrutiny in recent years.
“She’s an individual with extreme integrity,” Hawkes said in an interview after Boniface and five others were named by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his appointees to represent Ontario in the Senate.