Cordy was appointed to the Senate by
Prime Minister Jean Chrétien on June 9, 2000. She has also served as Vice-Chair of the Halifax-Dartmouth Port Development Commission and as Chair of the Board of Referees for the Halifax Region of Human Resources Development Canada. She sat in the Senate as a
Liberal representing the senatorial division of Nova Scotia. On January 29, 2014, Liberal Party leader
Justin Trudeau announced all Liberal Senators, including Cordy, were removed from the Liberal caucus, and would continue sitting as independents. The Senators referred to themselves as the
Senate Liberal Caucus even though they were no longer members of the parliamentary Liberal caucus. With the
Senate Liberal Caucus facing losing official
parliamentary caucus status in 2020 with a third of its caucus facing mandatory retirements on their turning age 75, Senator
Joseph Day announced that the
Senate Liberal Caucus had been dissolved and a new
Progressive Senate Group (PSG) formed in its wake, with the entire membership joining the new group, including this senator. that her colleagues in the PSG had selected her as the new leader, ostensibly effective that same date. later that day Senator
Terry Mercer would be moving into the Whip/Caucus Chair role, that Senator
Dennis Dawson would become the new Deputy Leader, and that the interim monikers were being removed at the same time. ==References==