Passing of Speaker Pierre Claude Nolin.

• Position: CPA Activities: The Canadian Scene - Brief article - Obituary

The CPA-CR is very sad to report that Senate Speaker Pierre Claude Nolin passed away on April 23, 2015 after a five-year long battle with a rare form of cancer. Named to the Senate in 1993 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who remembered Speaker Nolin as a man with "great personal integrity" who served Canada "with dignity and honour at all times," Nolin had been appointed Speaker of the Senate by Governor General David Johnston on the advice of Prime Minister Stephen Harper on November 26, 2014. He had served as Speaker pro tempore for a year previously.

"Thanks to his courage and patriotism, this affable and cultured man was able to exercise his talents as a unifying and enlightened...