Independent Link Byfield panned the decision and has stated he would refuse an appointment without a new mandate.
In 2004 she ran as a candidate in the 2004 Alberta senate nominee election.
Nonetheless, three winners of such elections have been nominated to the Senate: Senator Stan Waters was elected in the Alberta Senate nominee election, 1989, and Senators Bert Brown and Betty Unger were elected Senators-in-Waiting in 2004.
In 2004, he ran in the Alberta Senate nominee election for a place in the Canadian Senate.
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Then-Premier Ed Stelmach announced on April 29, 2010, that it was extending the terms of the three senators-in-waiting elected in 2004 beyond November 22, 2010, to December 2, 2013, unless elections were called earlier.