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Contact List for All Senators 1-800-267-7362 The Senate of Canada – Contact List for all Senators All Senators may be called toll free by calling 1-800-267-7362 (The phone numbers below are for their offices at Parliament, in the 613 area code.) Willie Adams - Liberal Nunavut Territory Michel Biron - Liberal 992-2753 Quebec [email protected] 992-0923 [email protected] Raynell Andreychuk - Conservative Saskatchewan John G. Bryden - Liberal 947-2239 New Brunswick [email protected] 947-7305 [email protected] W. David Angus - Conservative Quebec John M. Buchanan - Conservative 947-3193 Nova Scotia ? [email protected] 943-1409 [email protected] Norman K. Atkins - Progressive Ontario Catherine S. Callbeck - Liberal 992-7172 Prince Edward Island [email protected] 943-0686 http://sen.parl .gc.ca/ccallbeck Jack Austin - Liberal [email protected] British Columbia – Leader of the Government in the Senate Pat Carney - Conservative 992-1437 British Columbia http://www.pco-bcp.gc.ca/lgs 943-1433 [email protected] http://sen.parl .gc.ca/pcarney [email protected] Lise Bacon - Liberal Quebec Sharon Carstairs - Liberal 995-6194 Manitoba 947-7123 George Baker - Liberal http://sen.parl.gc.ca/scarstairs Newfoundland and Labrador [email protected] 947-2517 Maria Chaput - Liberal Tommy Banks - Liberal Manitoba Alberta 943-2435 995-1889 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/mchaput http://sen.parl.gc.ca/tbanks [email protected] Gérald A. Beaudoin - Conservative Quebec 995-6128 Ione Christensen - Liberal 943-1454 Yukon Territory http://sen.parl.gc.ca/SenatorCon 996-5937 [email protected] http://sen.parl.gc.ca/ichristensen/ C. William Doody - Progressive Conservative Ethel M. Cochrane - Conservative Newfoundland and Labrador Newfoundland and Labrador 995-1144 992-1577 [email protected] http://sen.parl.gc.ca/ecochrane [email protected] Percy Downe - Liberal Prince Edward Island Gerald J. Comeau - Conservative 943-8107 Nova Scotia 943-1448 John Trevor Eyton - Conservative Ontario Joan Cook - Liberal 943-1460 Newfoundland and Labrador [email protected] 943-1051 [email protected] Joyce Fairbairn - Liberal Alberta Anne C. Cools - Liberal 996-4382 Ontario [email protected] 992-2808 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/acools Marisa Ferretti Barth - Liberal [email protected] Quebec 943-0679 Eymard G. Corbin - Liberal http://sen.parl .gc.ca/mferrettibarth New Brunswick [email protected] 996-8485 Isobel Finnerty - Liberal Jane Cordy - Liberal Ontario Nova Scotia 943-7808 995-8409 D. Ross Fitzpatrick - Liberal Joseph A. Day - Liberal British Columbia New Brunswick 992-4974 992-0833 http://sen.parl .gc.ca/rfitzpatrick [email protected] [email protected] Pierre De Bané - Liberal J. Michael Forrestall - Conservative Quebec Nova Scotia 992-8289 943-1442 [email protected] Consiglio Di Nino - Conservative Ontario Joan Fraser - Liberal Céline Hervieux-Payette - Liberal Quebec Quebec 943-9556 947-8008 [email protected] [email protected] George Furey - Liberal Elizabeth Hubley - Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador Prince Edward Island 943-7805 992-1177 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/gfurey [email protected] [email protected] (His assistants: Mobina S.B. Jaffer - Liberal Suzanne Charron: [email protected] British Columbia Edward C. Conway : [email protected]) 992-0189 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/mjaffer Jean-Robert Gauthier - Liberal [email protected] Ontario (Ottawa key assistant: Darrell Mast 947-7536 [email protected]) [email protected] Janis G. Johnson - Conservative Aurélien Gill - Liberal Manitoba Quebec 943-1430 943-7851 [email protected] Jerahmiel S. Grafstein - Liberal Serge Joyal - Liberal Ontario Quebec 992-2642 943-0434 http://sen.parl .gc.ca/sjoyal/index.html B. Alasdair Graham - Liberal [email protected] Nova Scotia 992-3770 James F. Kelleher - Conservative Ontario Leonard J. Gustafson - Conservative 943-0762 Saskatchewan 947-2233 Colin Kenny - Liberal [email protected] Ontario 996-2877 Mac Harb - Liberal http://sen.parl.gc.ca/ckenny Ontario [email protected] 996-2379 Wilbert Joseph Keon - Conservative Daniel Hays - Liberal Ontario Alberta 943-1415 992-4416 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/dhays Noël A. Kinsella - Conservative [email protected] New Brunswick 943-0753 [email protected] John Lynch-Staunton - Conservative Michael Kirby - Liberal Quebec Nova Scotia 943-1481 992-2976 [email protected] [email protected] (Fax: (613) 992-0172) Shirley Maheu - Liberal Quebec Richard H. Kroft - Liberal 947-2212 Manitoba [email protected] 992-7436 [email protected] Frank W. Mahovlich - Liberal Ontario Laurier L. LaPierre - Liberal 943-2065 Ontario [email protected] 992-0081 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/llapierre Paul J. Massicotte - Liberal [email protected] Quebec 943-8110 Jean Lapointe - Liberal Quebec Michael A. Meighen - Conservative 992-0166 Ontario 943-1421 Raymond Lavigne - Liberal [email protected] Quebec 947-2547 Terry M. Mercer - Liberal http://sen.parl.gc.ca/rlavigne Nova Scotia [email protected] 996-2657 Edward M. Lawson - Liberal Pana Merchant - Liberal British Columbia Saskatchewan 996-5453 944-7777 [email protected] Lorna Milne - Liberal Marjory LeBreton - Conservative Ontario Ontario 947-7695 943-0756 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/lmilne [email protected] Viola Léger - Liberal New Brunswick Wilfred P. Moore - Liberal 992-1186 Nova Scotia 947-1921 Rose-Marie Losier-Cool - Liberal [email protected] New Brunswick 947-8011 [email protected] 992-2784 Yves Morin - Liberal Quebec Madeleine Plamondon - Independent 992-1689 Quebec http://sen.parl.gc.ca/ymorin 996-2973 [email protected] Marie-P. Poulin (Charette) - Liberal Jim Munson - Liberal Ontario Ontario 947-8005 947-2504 [email protected] Lowell Murray - Progressive Vivienne Poy - Liberal Conservative Ontario Ontario 943-7854 995-2407 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/vpoy [email protected] [email protected] Pierre Claude Nolin - Conservative Marcel Prud'homme - Independent Quebec Quebec 943-1451 947-2227 [email protected] [email protected] Donald H. Oliver - Conservative Pierrette Ringuette - Liberal Nova Scotia New Brunswick 943-1445 943-2248 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/doliver [email protected] Jean-Claude Rivest - Conservative Quebec Landon Pearson - Liberal 947-2236 Ontario [email protected] 947-7134 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/lpearson Brenda Robertson - Conservative [email protected] New Brunswick 998-5585 Lucie Pépin - Liberal [email protected] Quebec 996-1726 Fernand Robichaud - Liberal http://sen.parl .gc.ca/lpepin New Brunswick [email protected] 943-0675 Gerard A. Phalen - Liberal Douglas Roche - Independent Nova Scotia Alberta 996-4680 943-9559 http://sen.parl.gc.ca/droche P. Michael Pitfield - Independent [email protected] Ontario [email protected] William Rompkey - Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador Marilyn Trenholme Counsell - 947-9584 Liberal [email protected] New Brunswick 996-2270 Eileen Rossiter - Conservative Prince Edward Island Charlie Watt - Liberal 992-1650 Quebec 992-2981 Nick G. Sibbeston - Liberal [email protected] Northwest Territories 943-7790 * * * David P. Smith - Liberal Ontario Mail may be sent postage-free to any 944-4079 Senator at the following address: Herbert O. Sparrow - Liberal The Senate of Canada, Saskatchewan Ottawa, Ontario 996-5994 K1A 0A4 Mira Spivak - Independent Manitoba All Senators may be called 995-1488 toll free by calling: [email protected] 1-800-267-7362 Gerry St. Germain - Conservative British Columbia 947-2242 * * * * http://sen.parl.gc.ca/gstgermain [email protected] Peter A. Stollery - Liberal Ontario 992-3012 [email protected] Terry Stratton - Conservative Manitoba 947-2224 David Tkachuk - Conservative Saskatchewan 947-3196 http://sen.parl .gc.ca/dtkachuk .
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