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class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Edwards_(politician)" title="Paul Edwards (politician)">Paul Edwards</a> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> <table class="mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="margin-bottom:-.65em; ; width:100%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="2" style="line-height:normal; padding:0.2em; border:1px dashed lightgrey;;"><div style="text-align: center; padding: 0 0.4em; margin: 0 3.3em">Parliamentary constituencies </div></th> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Canada" title="Senate of Canada">Canadian Senator</a><br />from <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Senate_divisions#Western_Provinces_regional_division" title="Canadian Senate divisions">Manitoba</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />September 15, 1994 – October 17, 2011</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Nominated by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien" title="Jean Chrétien">Jean Chrétien</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Appointed by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ray_Hnatyshyn" title="Ray Hnatyshyn">Ray Hnatyshyn</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Everett" title="Douglas Everett">Douglas Everett</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/JoAnne_Buth" title="JoAnne Buth">JoAnne Buth</a> (2012)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:#eee;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Member_of_the_Legislative_Assembly#Canada" title="Member of the Legislative Assembly">Member</a> of the<br /><a href="/wiki/Legislative_Assembly_of_Manitoba" title="Legislative Assembly of Manitoba">Legislative Assembly of Manitoba</a><br />for <a href="/wiki/River_Heights_(electoral_district)" title="River Heights (electoral district)">River Heights</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />March 18, 1986 – September 15, 1994</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Steen" title="Warren Steen">Warren Steen</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Radcliffe" title="Mike Radcliffe">Mike Radcliffe</a> (1995)</td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1942-04-26</span>) </span>April 26, 1942<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 82)</span><br /><a href="/wiki/Halifax,_Nova_Scotia" title="Halifax, Nova Scotia">Halifax, Nova Scotia</a>, Canada</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Manitoba_Liberal_Party" title="Manitoba Liberal Party">Manitoba Liberal</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Connolly" title="Harold Connolly">Harold Connolly</a> (father)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Portfolio</th><td class="infobox-data"><b>Federal</b>:<br />Minister with Special Responsibility for Palliative Care (2001-2003)<br />Leader of the Government in the Senate (2001-2003)<br />Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate (1997-1999)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Sharon Carstairs</b> <span class="nobold noexcerpt nowraplinks" style="font-size:;"><span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/King%27s_Privy_Council_for_Canada" title="King's Privy Council for Canada">PC</a></span> <span style="font-size: 85%;"><a href="/wiki/Order_of_Canada" title="Order of Canada">CM</a></span></span> (born April 26, 1942) is a <a href="/wiki/Canadians" title="Canadians">Canadian</a> politician and former <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Canada" title="Senate of Canada">Senator</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-parlbio_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parlbio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Carstairs&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Carstairs was born in <a href="/wiki/City_of_Halifax" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Halifax">Halifax</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-parlbio_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parlbio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the daughter of former <a href="/wiki/Nova_Scotia" title="Nova Scotia">Nova Scotia</a> <a href="/wiki/Premier_of_Nova_Scotia" title="Premier of Nova Scotia">Premier</a> and federal Senator <a href="/wiki/Harold_Connolly" title="Harold Connolly">Harold Connolly</a> and his wife Vivian.<sup id="cite_ref-march26_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-march26-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was educated at <a href="/wiki/Dalhousie_University" title="Dalhousie University">Dalhousie University</a>, <a href="/wiki/Smith_College" title="Smith College">Smith College</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgetown_University" title="Georgetown University">Georgetown University</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/University_of_Calgary" title="University of Calgary">University of Calgary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-parlbio_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parlbio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Alberta_politics">Alberta politics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Carstairs&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Alberta politics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>She later moved to <a href="/wiki/Western_Canada" title="Western Canada">Western Canada</a>, and was an unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/Alberta_Liberal_Party" title="Alberta Liberal Party">Liberal</a> candidate for <a href="/wiki/Calgary-Elbow" title="Calgary-Elbow">Calgary-Elbow</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1975_Alberta_general_election" title="1975 Alberta general election">1975 Alberta provincial election</a>. She served as President of the <a href="/wiki/Alberta_Liberal_Party" title="Alberta Liberal Party">Alberta Liberal Party</a> between 1975 and 1977, and was on the national executive of the <a href="/wiki/Liberal_Party_of_Canada" title="Liberal Party of Canada">Liberal Party of Canada</a> in the same period. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Manitoba_Liberal_leader">Manitoba Liberal leader</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Carstairs&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Manitoba Liberal leader"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Carstairs became leader of the <a href="/wiki/Manitoba_Liberal_Party" title="Manitoba Liberal Party">Manitoba Liberal Party</a> in 1984,<sup id="cite_ref-parlbio_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parlbio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at a time when the party held no seats in the legislature. She came second to <a href="/wiki/Progressive_Conservative_Party_of_Manitoba" title="Progressive Conservative Party of Manitoba">Progressive Conservative</a> candidate <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Birt" title="Charlie Birt">Charlie Birt</a> in a 1984 <a href="/wiki/By-election" title="By-election">by-election</a> in the south <a href="/wiki/Winnipeg" title="Winnipeg">Winnipeg</a> <a href="/wiki/Electoral_district_(Canada)" title="Electoral district (Canada)">electoral district</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fort_Garry_(electoral_district)" title="Fort Garry (electoral district)">Fort Garry</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was elected for the central Winnipeg district of <a href="/wiki/River_Heights_(electoral_district)" title="River Heights (electoral district)">River Heights</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1986_Manitoba_general_election" title="1986 Manitoba general election">1986 provincial election</a>, defeating incumbent Tory <a href="/wiki/Warren_Steen" title="Warren Steen">Warren Steen</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For the next two years, she was the only Liberal in the legislature. </p><p>Carstairs led the Liberal Party to a dramatic resurgence in the <a href="/wiki/1988_Manitoba_general_election" title="1988 Manitoba general election">1988 provincial election</a>, which saw the <a href="/wiki/New_Democratic_Party_of_Manitoba" title="New Democratic Party of Manitoba">New Democratic Party of Manitoba</a> under <a href="/wiki/Howard_Pawley" title="Howard Pawley">Howard Pawley</a> reduced from government to <a href="/wiki/Third_party_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Third party (politics)">third party</a> status, and the election of a Progressive Conservative <a href="/wiki/Minority_government" title="Minority government">minority government</a> under <a href="/wiki/Gary_Filmon" title="Gary Filmon">Gary Filmon</a>. Carstairs' Liberals won 20 of 57 seats for their best showing since 1953, largely by drawing many centre-left voters from the NDP. Carstairs became <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Opposition_(Manitoba)" title="Leader of the Opposition (Manitoba)">leader of the opposition</a>, the first woman to hold such a position in any Canadian legislature.<sup id="cite_ref-voice_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voice-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having led the party out of almost 20 years in the political wilderness, it initially seemed that Carstairs had a strong opportunity to lead the Liberals to victory in the following election. Had she done so, she would have become the first woman elected in her own right as a provincial premier in Canada. The <a href="/wiki/1990_Manitoba_general_election" title="1990 Manitoba general election">1990 election</a>, however, saw the Tories returned with a <a href="/wiki/Majority_government" title="Majority government">majority government</a> and a resurgent NDP under <a href="/wiki/Gary_Doer" title="Gary Doer">Gary Doer</a> regain official opposition status. The Liberals were reduced to only seven seats.<sup id="cite_ref-voice_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voice-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many Liberals felt Carstairs had squandered their best chance in three decades to form government. </p><p>A strong opponent of the <a href="/wiki/Meech_Lake_Accord" title="Meech Lake Accord">Meech Lake Accord</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-voice_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-voice-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carstairs remained party leader and, in 1992, campaigned for the "No" side on the <a href="/wiki/Charlottetown_Accord" title="Charlottetown Accord">Charlottetown Accord</a>, with financial assistance from former party leader <a href="/wiki/Israel_Asper" class="mw-redirect" title="Israel Asper">Israel Asper</a>. Her efforts were opposed by others in the Liberal Party, and she frequently argued with <a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Axworthy" title="Lloyd Axworthy">Lloyd Axworthy</a> on constitutional matters. Carstairs resigned as party leader in 1993 and was succeeded by MLA <a href="/wiki/Paul_Edwards_(politician)" title="Paul Edwards (politician)">Paul Edwards</a>. The party has continued to decline since her departure, and has never come anywhere near as close to winning government as it did in 1988; it has only briefly held <a href="/wiki/Official_party_status" title="Official party status">official party status</a> for slightly more than a year in 2018–19 since. </p><p>In 1993, Carstairs published an autobiography entitled <i>Not One of the Boys</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-march26_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-march26-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Senate">Senate</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Carstairs&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Senate"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On September 15, 1994, at the recommendation of <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Canada" title="Prime Minister of Canada">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Jean_Chr%C3%A9tien" title="Jean Chrétien">Jean Chrétien</a>, <a href="/wiki/Governor_General_of_Canada" title="Governor General of Canada">Governor General</a> <a href="/wiki/Ray_Hnatyshyn" title="Ray Hnatyshyn">Ray Hnatyshyn</a> appointed Carstairs to the <a href="/wiki/Senate_of_Canada" title="Senate of Canada">Senate of Canada</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-parlbio_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parlbio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Carstairs had supported Chrétien's campaign to become party leader in <a href="/wiki/1990_Liberal_Party_of_Canada_leadership_election" title="1990 Liberal Party of Canada leadership election">1990</a>. </p><p>She held the position of <a href="/wiki/Leader_of_the_Government_in_the_Senate_(Canada)" class="mw-redirect" title="Leader of the Government in the Senate (Canada)">Leader of the Government in the Senate</a> from January 2001 to December 2003,<sup id="cite_ref-parlbio_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-parlbio-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and also served as Minister with Special Responsibility for Palliative Care in Chretien's <a href="/wiki/Cabinet_of_Canada" title="Cabinet of Canada">cabinet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-march26_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-march26-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She did not serve in the cabinet of Chretien's successor, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Martin" title="Paul Martin">Paul Martin</a>, when he took office in December 2003. </p><p>From April 2006 until December 2009, Carstairs continued her earlier work in cabinet by serving as chairperson of the Special Committee on Aging which issued a report that helped get palliative care added to the core curriculum in Canadian medical schools. She also helped create the Canadian Virtual Hospice, a website with information on palliative care.<sup id="cite_ref-retire_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-retire-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Retirement">Retirement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Carstairs&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Retirement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In October 2011, Carstairs announced she was resigning from the Senate to return to private life; she was then 69 years old, five and a half years shy of the <a href="/wiki/Mandatory_retirement" title="Mandatory retirement">mandatory retirement</a> age of 75.<sup id="cite_ref-retire_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-retire-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In retirement, she and her husband intended to remain in Ottawa to be close to their children. Carstairs became chair of the board for a network centre of excellence on caring for the frail elderly, pending the approval of a grant from the federal government.<sup id="cite_ref-retire_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-retire-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, the <a href="/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mounted_Police" title="Royal Canadian Mounted Police">Royal Canadian Mounted Police</a> investigated her expenses that she had submitted to the Senate as part of the <a href="/wiki/Canadian_Senate_expenses_scandal" title="Canadian Senate expenses scandal">Canadian Senate expenses scandal</a> but did not lay charges.<sup id="cite_ref-AudGen_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AudGen-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-expense_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-expense-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-expdenied_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-expdenied-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Honours_and_awards">Honours and awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Carstairs&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Honours and awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On June 30, 2016, Carstairs was made a <a href="/wiki/Order_of_Canada" title="Order of Canada">Member of the Order of Canada</a> by <a href="/wiki/Governor_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Governor General">Governor General</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Johnston_(governor_general)" title="David Johnston (governor general)">David Johnston</a> for "her public service and her work as a champion of palliative care."<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sharon_Carstairs&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output 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