Less than two weeks after becoming a non-affiliated member of Canada’s Senate, New Brunswick Sen. David Adams Richards elected to join the Conservative Party of Canada’s caucus in Parliament’s Upper House this week.

The 74-year-old declined an interview with National Post, but an emailed statement illustrated an obvious frustration with both Justin Trudeau and Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberal Party of Canada.

“For years, so many of the concerns I and others had about our country were dismissed by an insular, self-absorbed government, with an almost blind indifference to ordinary men and women,” wrote Richards, an award-winning and celebrated Canadian writer.

“Now the Liberals are insisting on policies that certain senators pleaded for and who were so often ridiculed and refused.”

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