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Actually no, there is a provision in the Constitution that allows a Prime Minister to add 4 or 8 senators.
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True, that's why I said conventions. Mulroney was the first.
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Although at least two Prime Ministers considered invoking section 26 as far back as Prime Minister Mackenzie in 1873, the appointment of senators over and above the usual 104 was not used until 1990 when Prime Minister Mulroney appointed eight additional senators to pass the Goods and Services Tax.
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As for the great Senate debate, I'm pretty sure Alberta has the right to implement a triple E Senate at the provincial level. Our argument might carry a little more weight if we actually believed in it.