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By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Mar 28, 2017

Conservative senators came to the defence of their colleague Lynn Beyak Tuesday, saying she has the right to free speech and should remain a member of the Red Chamber’s Aboriginal Peoples committee, despite her rosy views of the residential school system.

“Senator Beyak has exercised her right to free speech. We don’t want a bunch of yes people on committees who are only going to agree with what everyone else is saying,” Senator Don Plett, the Conservative whip, told reporters when asked if he will remove her from the committee.

As for the outrage expressed by some of her fellow senators and residential school survivors, Plett said, “Life will go on. The sun will rise tomorrow and set again tomorrow night and we’ll continue. There is no next step.”

Plett said the Senate’s reputation hasn’t been…