appointed birth_place party office birth_date term_start article_title term_end name
brian mulroney hopetown , quebec progressive conservative senator for maritimes divisional , maritimes -lrb- division -rrb- 06 september 1938 1990 james w. ross
 1993 james w. ross
james w. ross

james w. ross , cm -lrb- born september 6 , 1938 -rrb- is a canadian businessman and former canadian senator .
ross was one of eight senators appointed directly by the queen on the advice of prime minister brian mulroney under section 26 of the constitution act , 1867 in order to pass the goods and services tax .
the measure had faced defeat in the liberal dominated senate so mulroney utilized a previously unused constitutional provision in order to allow him to temporarily expand the size of the upper house by a total of eight senators -lrb- two per region -rrb- in order to ensure he had enough votes to enact the gst into law .
a businessman by trade , ross resigned from the senate in may 1993 , after only 972 days , in order to return to public life .
at the age of 55 , he was entitled to have remained in the senate for a further 20 years before being forced to retire .
ross remains active in fredericton , new brunswick as a philanthropist and businessman .
in 1994 , he founded partners for youth inc. , a non-profit organization built on a community partnership model that uses adventure-based counseling to help young people .
-lsb- http://alumni.unb.ca/awards/2005awards.html] while most senators sit as representatives of a province or territory , ross and the seven other senators appointed under section 26 represented regions so ross and michael forrestall sat as a senators representing the maritimes rather than a particular province .
in 1999 , he was made a member of the order of canada .
