帕梅拉·沃林表示，辞职只是时间问题。在“深思熟虑的第二院”担任萨斯喀彻温省参议员17年后，她想转向其他机遇。
Pamela Wallin says it was just time to resign. After 17 years sitting as a Saskatchewan senator in the chamber of sober second thought, she wanted to move on to other opportunities.
她说，与公众认知相反，参议员的职责是“全天候、全年无休”的，她需要时间来弄清楚下一步做什么。
She said that, contrary to public perception, a senator’s duties are “24-7” and she needed time to figure out what comes next.
“你心里清楚一份工作何时已到尽头，何时该另谋出路，我就是处于那个阶段，”73岁的沃林告诉莱莎·格雷宾斯基。
“You know when a job has come to an end and it’s time to move on in your own head and that’s just where I was,” Wallin, 73, told Leisha Grebinski.
“我还有其他想做、想尝试的事情。” 帕梅拉·沃林谈离开参议院及加拿大未来 22分钟前 时长 广泛的职业生涯 沃林成年后的大半生都在公众视野中度过。
“I have other things to do that I want to try.”Pamela Wallin on why she left the Senate and what's next for Canada 22 minutes ago Duration Wide-ranging career Wallin has spent her adult life in the public eye.
她出生于穆斯乔，在里贾纳东北222公里处的瓦德纳长大，随后搬到安大略省，在广播新闻界工作了40年，包括主持CTV的《加拿大早安》，担任该网驻渥太华首位女局长，以及联合主持CBC的晚间全国新闻节目《国家新闻》。
Born in Moose Jaw, she was raised in Wadena, 222 kilometres northeast of Regina, before moving to Ontario where she spent 40 years in broadcast journalism, including hosting CTV’s , working as that network’s first female bureau chief in Ottawa and co-anchoring CBC’s nightly national newscast .
9·11事件后，她获时任总理让·克雷蒂安任命，出任加拿大驻纽约总领事。
She served as Consul General of Canada to New York after 9/11, appointed to the position by then-prime minister Jean Chrétien.
前保守党总理斯蒂芬·哈珀于2008年任命她为参议员。据萨斯喀彻温大学政治学家、教授格雷格·波尔泽说，与她在新闻界的高调生涯不同，她作为参议员的时光较为低调。
Former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper appointed her to the Senate in 2008. Unlike her high-profile career in journalism, her time as a senator has been quieter, according to Greg Poelzer, a political scientist and professor at the University of Saskatchewan.
“我认为她是较为低调的参议员之一，并不以产生重大影响著称，比如在推动或支持新立法成为法律方面，”波尔泽在节目中告诉CBC的彼得·米尔斯。沃林的参议员生涯因卷入2013年参议院开支丑闻而蒙上阴影。
“I think she was one of the more quiet senators and not really known for making a big impact, say on advancing or supporting new legislation that came into law,” Poelzer told CBC’s Peter Mills on. Wallin’s time in the Senate was marred by her involvement in the 2013 Senate expense scandal.
参议院拒绝对开支实施外部监督 审计认定，沃林因在企业董事会工作产生的差旅开支，向参议院不当报销约14万加元。沃林偿还了款项及利息，并表示自己在提交文件时出了错。306 帕梅拉·沃林辞去参议员职务波尔泽表示，近年来沃林一直是扩大加拿大“医疗协助死亡”（MAID）计划准入的积极倡导者。
Senate rejects calls for outside oversight of expenses An audit determined Wallin improperly charged to the Senate about $140,000 in travel expenses related to her work on corporate boards. Wallin repaid the money, plus interest, and said she had made a mistake in filing the paperwork. The 306 Pamela Wallin resigns from Senate Advocacy Poelzer said Wallin was a vocal advocate in recent years for expanding access to Canada’s Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID) program.
沃林的母亲患有阿尔茨海默症，这位前记者希望该计划能够扩大，允许处于该病早期阶段以及患有类似疾病的人，能够预先授权其医疗协助死亡。
Wallin’s mother had Alzheimer’s, and the former journalist wanted the program to expand and allow people in the early stages of the disease, and others like it, to be able to pre-authorize their medically assisted death.
司法部长肖恩·弗雷泽本月早些时候宣布，渥太华将提出立法，为“预先同意”医疗协助死亡“敞开大门”，适用于疾病最终会损害一个人同意能力的情况。
Justice Minister Sean Fraser announced earlier this month that Ottawa will introduce legislation that would “open the door” for advance consent for MAID in situations where their disease will eventually impair a person's capacity for consent.
监督加拿大首部安乐死法律的前总理称担心其走得太远 政府将公布医疗协助死亡后续步骤，司法部长表示 沃林表示，医疗协助死亡拟议的扩大范围——这是她奋斗了11年的事业——似乎是结束她参议员生涯的好时机。
Premier who oversaw Canada's first assisted dying law says he worries it's gone too far Government to reveal next steps for medically assisted dying, justice minister says Wallin said the proposed expansion of MAID, something she’d spent 11 years fighting for, seemed like a good time to wrap up her time in the Senate.
“我在周三晚上就这个话题发表了告别演讲，”沃林说。“我脑海深处有个小小的声音说‘赢了就收手，继续前行’。” 沃林的辞职让包括波尔泽在内的许多人感到意外。距离她达到参议院75岁的强制退休年龄，还有近两年时间。“通常你会预期一个人完成任期，”波尔泽说。
“I’d given my final speech on that topic on the Wednesday evening," Wallin said. "Some little tiny part of my brain said ‘take the win and move on.’”Wallin’s resignation caught many, including Poelzer, by surprise. She still had nearly two years left before hitting the Senate’s mandatory retirement age of 75. “Normally you would expect a person to complete the term,” Poelzer said.
“让许多人感到意外的就是这点，因为她距离任期结束还有约18个月、两年时间。” 萨斯喀彻温省现在有两个空缺的参议员席位：沃林的席位，以及托德·刘易斯的席位，后者于7月去世。
“That’s the part that caught a lot of people by surprise, because she’s about 18 months, two years away from her term completing.”Saskatchewan now has two vacant Senate seats: Wallin’s and the seat belonging to Todd Lewis, who died in July.