"Donald H. Oliver", Queen's Counsel/QC is a retired Canada/Canadian Senate of Canada/Senator and lawyer.

A lawyer and developer, Oliver is a member of Nova Scotia's Black Nova Scotians/Black minority. He is the nephew of Canadian opera singer Portia White, politician Bill White (Canadian politician)/Bill White and labour union activist Jack White (politician)/Jack White, and the cousin of political strategist Sheila White (politician)/Sheila White. He is descended from slave refugees who came to Canada during the War of 1812.

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In the House, people are elected and Canadians have said that there's nothing wrong with voting in brown or black people, ... This indicates that the people of Canada want Parliament to be reflective of society as opposed to the Prime Minister who hasn't appointed one visible minority to the Senate.

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It's disgraceful and shameful, ... It's in the senior and middle management positions where the Senate's record is especially shameful.

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[In addition to the Senate's administration, Sen. Oliver took aim at the recent rounds of Senate appointments Prime Minister Paul Martin has made.] Not one was a visible minority, ... How can that be?

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The Senate's lack of diversity is so glaring and so problematic to the future of our institution that it heightens the desire of many Canadians to have our Upper Chamber abolished because it is irrelevant and unrepresentative of Canada's cultural mosaic.

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The only person who's let me down is Paul Martin, ... I hope I can see some changes. Visible minorities are terribly un-represented and concerns about the Senate are controlled 100 per cent by the Prime Minister. Someone needs to account for it--accounting starts with the Prime Minister.

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