Colin Kenny

James Colin Ramsey Kenny (born December 10, 1943) is a former Canadian Senator. A member of the Liberal Party, he was appointed to the Senate in 1984 by Pierre Trudeau to represent the Rideau region of Ontario.

On January 31, 2018, it was announced that Kenny had informed the Speaker of the Senate that he would be retiring effective February 2, 2018, ten months ahead of his scheduled retirement date, due to ill health. His stepfather Roy H. Hyndman was the final president of Charles Ogilvy Ltd. a major Ottawa department store. In the 36th Parliament, Kenny was the chair of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration from 1999 to 2000.

He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission.

In October 2013, CBC News reported that a former staffer of Kenny's had accused him of sexual harassment. In April 2014 an independent investigator cleared Kenny on all three charges brought forward by his former employee. The findings were upheld by both Liberal and Conservative senate whips and the investigation was closed. The investigation was criticized because it did not look into evidence of complaints made by other woman besides the former assistant. After the initial CBC story broke, nine other woman made complaints against Kenny, including two who had been employed by his tanning salon and two who were employed by NATO when Kenny was part of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly in 2001.

At the end of January 2018, Kenny wrote the Speaker of the Senate to inform him that he would retire on February 2, 2018, ten months before his mandatory retirement date of December 2018, citing his ill health. The decision was made a day after Kenny's former staffer who had accused him of sexual harassment emailed Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to re-open the investigation so it could hear from the other women complainants as well.