Rises to deliver maiden speech in the Senate. The speech included controversial remarks related to PEI Premier Robert Ghiz and then-Newfoundland and Labrador premier Danny Williams: "I was disappointed to see that our dynamic young Premier in Prince Edward Island, Robert Ghiz, has climbed into bed with the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, and honourable senators know what a grotesque scene that is. Do honourable senators know what happens when two politicians climb into bed together? One of them comes out on top and I am afraid that when one is in bed with Danny Williams he will come out on top and I would hate to see where that will leave P.E.I. in the end."
Withdraws the "metaphor" delivered in his maiden speech about relations between two Atlantic premiers.
Pays tribute to former New Brunswick cabinet minister Marilyn Trenholme Counsell
Attended a party fundraiser in Cobourg, ON, in the riding of Northumberland-Quinte West
Attended a party fundraiser in Cambridge, ON in the riding of Cambridge
Attended a party fundraiser in Wendover, ON in the riding of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell
Attended a party fundraiser in Langley, BC in the riding of Langley
Pays tribute to retiring Senator Yoine Goldstein
Attended a provincial party fundraiser in Renfrew, ON in the riding of Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke
Attended a party fundraiser in Chesterville, ON in the riding of Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry
