Alberta Senator Scott Tannas has joined Jean Charest's election team.."Experience. Optimism. Vision. Courage. Charest is the leader Canada needs now. He has my full support," Tannas said..Tannas was one of 13 candidates in the 2012 Alberta Senator-in-Waiting elections, where he received 349,346 votes and was ultimately appointed to the Senate by Prime Minister Stephen Harper on March 22, 2013..Tannas is also the leader of the Canadian Senators Group, a parliamentary caucus group he founded Nov. 5, 2019..Before that, he was the president and CEO of Western Financial Group, a life insurance and banking company founded in Alberta..Over the 2020–2021 winter holidays, Tannas travelled to Hawaii despite public health advice discouraging non-essential international travel due to the pandemic..Tannas claimed he had followed all the rules and health protocols required to undertake international travel.
