Pamela Wallin has resigned from the Senate two years short of the mandatory 75-year retirement age.
The veteran broadcaster, who is now 73, was appointed to the Upper Chamber in 2009 on the advice of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
After three decades in journalism – that included being named the first woman bureau chief for CTV News Ottawa in 1985 and two separate runs hosting national morning show, Canada AM – Wallin had previously been appointed to a four-year term as Canada’s Consul General in New York City in 2002. She went on to become a senior advisor to influential business group, the Council of the Americas.
Wallin, who has represented her home province of Saskatchewan, was among the senators caught up in a late 2012 expense scandal alongside fellow broadcaster Mike Duffy, Patrick Brazeau and Mac Harb when it was discovered they claimed travel and living allowances for which they were not eligible. No charges were ever laid against Wallin, however she paid back more than $150,000 in travel expenses it was found were related to her work serving on corporate boards, including BellGlobemedia, Porter Airlines, and Oilsands Quest. She returned to the Senate in 2015 as an independent.
Wallin has most recently been hosting her own political and current affairs podcast, No Nonsense with Pamela Wallin.
