On August 14, the Ukrainian Canadian community will lose one of its most effective parliamentarians when Sen. Raynell Andreychuk reaches the mandatory retirement age of 75.
To understand the idea of a mandatory retirement age for senators, one must also understand that the Canadian Senate is substantially different from the American one. In fact, it is modelled after the British House of Lords and is not elected, but appointed by the governor general (representing the queen of England in Canada) on the advice of the prime minister.