Photo: Nunavik Senator sponsors latest Senate appointment

Charlie Watt, right, the Senator from Nunavik, stands with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s latest senate appointment: Murray Sinclair, middle. Sinclair, an Ojibway lawyer, former judge and, most recently, chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was sworn in to the Senate April12 at a ceremony in the Senate foyer. Sinclair was among seven new appointments to the Red Chamber. Standing with them is Senator Peter Harder, left. Members of the Senate Committee on Aboriginal People’s will be in the North next week to gather information on the ongoing housing crisis here, starting in Iqaluit and travelling to Igloolik, Kuujjuaq, Sanikiluaq and Nain. (PHOTO BY NEIL VALOIS)