Robert Black (Canadian senator)

Robert Black (born March 27, 1962) is a Canadian Senator from Ontario. He was named to the Senate by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on February 15, 2018. Prior to his appointment, Black was a leader in the agricultural community. He has been chief executive of the Rural Ontario Institute since 2010 and has also been involved in the 4-H farm youth organization since the 1970s.[1] He subsequently joined the Independent Senators Group and, on November 4, 2019, he joined the Canadian Senators Group.[2]

The Honourable

Robert Black
Canadian Senator
from Ontario
Assumed office
February 15, 2018
Nominated byJustin Trudeau
Appointed byJulie Payette
Personal details
Born (1962-03-27) March 27, 1962
Fergus, Ontario, Canada
Political partyCanadian Senators Group
Other political
affiliations		Independent Senators Group (2018-2019)

On February 27, 2020, in an apparent last ditch attempt to defend fellow Senator Lynn Beyak - who is the Senator from Northwestern Ontario twice suspended from the Chamber for posting racist letters directed at Aboriginal Peoples - Black Voted along with only Senator Josee Verner; to further study the matter respecting Beyak and the "ethics" committee, which would have effectively bought Beyak (71) more time in the Federal Senate. These vain efforts were handily defeated by a majority of Independent and Progressive senators. [3]

Black has also been a councillor on the Wellington County council from 2014 until his appointment to the Senate[4] and was a civil servant with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture for fifteen years.[1] He has also served on the Ontario Agricultural Hall of Fame's board of directors.[5]

Early life and education

Black was born and raised in Fergus, Ontario. In 1981 he graduated from Centre Wellington District High School. He attended the University of Guelph in the Bachelor of Science in Agriculture program, graduating in 1985,[6] and subsequently earned his Bachelor of Education from Queen's University in Kingston, graduating in 1990.[7]


gollark: You can also write SVGs directly for diagramming.
gollark: You can use arbitrary unicode characters too.
gollark: You can use splitpane preview in some editors, too!
gollark: minoteaur's going to support that.
gollark: I mean, you can write TeX.

References
  1. "Martha Deacon, Robert Black to represent Ontario in Senate".
  2. "Senators List". Senate of Canada. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. John Paul Tasker CBC News Parliamentary Bureau -Ottawa - published February 27, 2020 3:02pm et
  4. "Two new senators from Ontario named to upper chamber".
  5. "About Rob". Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  6. "U of G Graduate Appointed to Senate". U of G News. 2018-02-16. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
  7. "Robert Black". Prime Minister of Canada. 2018-02-15. Retrieved 2018-02-22.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.