Honourable senators, I received a notice from the Leader of the Independent Senators Group who requests, pursuant to rule 4-3(1), that the time provided for the consideration of Senators’ Statements be extended today for the purpose of paying tribute to the Honourable Murray Sinclair, who retired from the Senate on January 31, 2021.

I remind senators that pursuant to our Rules, each senator will be allowed only three minutes and they may speak only once.

Is it agreed that we continue our tributes to our former colleague, Senator Sinclair, under Senators’ Statements? We will therefore have up to 33 minutes for tributes. Any time remaining after tributes would be used for other statements.