OTTAWA \u2014 Todd Lewis, a Saskatchewan senator, farmer and agricultural sector advocate has died at the age of 65.<\/p>\n
Raymonde Gagn\u00e9, the speaker of the Senate, announced Lewis’s death Saturday afternoon and called him a “steadfast champion of Saskatchewan’s agricultural sector.”<\/p>\n
“Throughout his more than four-decade career on the land, Senator Lewis emerged as a leading advocate for farmers’ interests, serving five years as president of the Agricultural Producers Association of Saskatchewan and as a leading member of many other community organizations,” Gagne said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Lewis was appointed to the Senate by former prime minister Justin Trudeau on Feb. 7, 2025.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Mark Carney said in a statement that Lewis’s lifetime of public service led him to the Senate where he remained a “steadfast voice” for rural communities.<\/p>\n
“Senator Lewis understood that farming is more than a livelihood \u2014 it is a responsibility to the land, to one’s neighbours, and to the generations that follow. He carried that conviction from his family farm in Gray, Saskatchewan, into a distinguished career of advocacy that made him one of Canadian agriculture’s most trusted voices,” Carney said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe also shared a message of condolence, saying Lewis was a community leader and advocate for his home province.<\/p>\n
Lewis operated a farm near Gray, Sask., about 39 kilometres south of Regina, for more than 40 years.<\/p>\n
Lewis’s past public service includes time on his local school board, more than 20 years as a council member for the rural municipality of Lajord, time as a volunteer firefighter and board president for his community rink.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 2, 2026.<\/p>\n
David Baxter, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OTTAWA \u2014 Todd Lewis, a Saskatchewan senator, farmer and agricultural sector advocate has died at the age of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,49497,111,2393,49496,989,49495],"class_list":["post-153136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-canada","tag-gray","tag-mark-carney","tag-saskatchewan","tag-senator-lewis","tag-the-canadian-press","tag-todd-lewis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}