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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
Edit: how did there get to be 18 vacancies - have the CPC been waiting for provinces to elect whom he should appoint?
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The government has made a longstanding habit of ignoring Senate vacancies. At one point early in the Martin era, I believe we only had two sitting Senators representing Alberta. The Liberals simply ignored the open seats. Of course, when they did finally fill them, they filled them with Liberals.
If the Senate is to remain unelected, then the appointments should not be coming from Ottawa, but rather from the provinces themselves.