Harper appoints three failed Conservative candidates to Senate
Posted May 18, 2011 01:42:15 PM.
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OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper is sending three of his losing candidates to the Senate, including two men who quit the upper house to run for the Commons.
Larry Smith and Fabian Manning are returning to the Senate along with Josee Verner, a former Harper cabinet minister who was defeated by a New Democrat on May 2.
Smith’s reappointment comes despite his election night comment that he wouldn’t be going back to the Senate.
Manning was first appointed to the Senate in 2008 and Smith was named last December.
Smith, a former commissioner of the CFL, and Manning, a well-known Newfoundland politician, were seen as star candidates in the May 2 campaign.
Verner was first elected to the Commons in 2006 and re-elected in 2008.
