Signing up enhances your TCE experience with the ability to save items to your personal reading list, and access the interactive map. Senators are appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister. Senators lose their seats if they become aliens; become bankrupt, insolvent or public defaulters; are convicted of felony or any «infamous crime»; lose their residence or property qualification; or are absent for two consecutive sessions of Parliament. Located on the eastern end of Parliament’s Centre Block, the Senate chamber is adorned in royal red versus the green mqke the House of Commons. It is where senators meet and debate, and where the Canadian sovereign or their representative the governor-general addresses Parliament and delivers the Speech from the Throne at the beginning of every new session of Parliament. This is also where the ceremony is held to install a new governor general.