Nick Sibbeston: Difference between revisions

Sibbeston is from [[Fort Simpson]], [[Northwest Territories]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/nick-sibbeston-blames-party-politics-for-low-attendance-1.2518466|title=Nick Sibbeston blames ‘party politics’ for low attendance|last=|first=|date=January 31, 2014|work=[[CBC News]]|access-date=September 22, 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref> Considered a [[Canadian Indian residential school system|residential school]] survivor,<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/north/nwt-senator-nick-sibbeston-resigns-1.4301185|title=N.W.T. Senator Nick Sibbeston resigns|last=|first=|date=September 21, 2017|work=[[CBC News]]|access-date=September 22, 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref> he attended residential schools in Fort Simpson, Providence, [[Inuvik]], and [[Yellowknife]], and the [[University of Alberta]] where he graduated with Bachelor of Arts and Law degrees.

On January 29, 2014, Liberal Party leader [[Justin Trudeau]] announced all Liberal Senators, including Sibbeston, were removed from the Liberal caucus, and would continue sitting as Independents.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/justin-trudeau-removes-senators-from-liberal-caucus-1.2515273|title=Liberal leader says senators not welcome in caucus|last=Cudmore|first=James|date=January 29, 2014|work=[[CBC News]]|access-date=September 22, 2017|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|language=en}}</ref> According to Senate Opposition leader [[Jim Cowan|James Cowan]], the Senators will still refer to themselves as Liberals even if they are no longer members of the parliamentary Liberal caucus.<ref name=expuls>{{cite news|title=Trudeau’s expulsion catches Liberal senators by surprise|url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/trudeau-to-boot-senators-from-liberal-caucus-in-bid-to-restore-senate-independence/article16567413/|accessdate=January 29, 2014|newspaper=Globe and Mail|date=January 29, 2014}}</ref> Sibbeston agreed with Trudeau's decision, saying that the Northwest Territories also did not have a party system.<ref name=":0" /> In the same month, Sibbeston defended missing 51 out of 70 votes in the previous parliamentary session on the nastiness of partisan party politics in Ottawa, which he was not used to in the North.<ref name=":0" />