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Mark Carney has appointed four senators, thus checking off another rite of passage for prime ministers. Two of them — a medical researcher and a chartered professional accountant — are perfectly respectable worthies about whom little is known and nothing interesting can be said. The two other new senators, Tom Pitfield and Richard Martel, tell us much more about Canadian politics in 2026.

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First, let’s take Sen. Pitfield, son of the late Sen. Pitfield, one of those famously apolitical civil servants who somehow end up with a Liberal appointment the moment they leave the public service. Young Thomas, meanwhile, grew up as the playmate of Justin Trudeau, whose father his father served as Clerk of the Privy Council.

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