Had Senator Beyak stuck to the subject that she was supposed to speak to...(the increasing over-representation of indigenous women in Canadian prisons) she might have avoided all this press.  But she wandered all over the place, talking about residential schools, the Langevin Block, Mohawk Chief Bryant and his slave ownership in the 1800's, and even went overtime with her speech....twice.  

She clearly demonstrated why the old way of appointing senators was wrong....unless we want to see a senate with an average IQ less than flowering plants.