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Originally Posted by Ronald Pagan
Nobody has yet demonstrated why the original system (of a completely useless Senate) is broken.
That case needs to be clarified before you can make a compelling case for why it should be reformed.
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Look at it this way. The Senate costs taxpayers millions of dollars in operational costs, from salaries, pensions etc.
It is broken because it has absolutely ZERO reason for being in existence in its current form, it does nothing but give political appointees free money.
It was elected and there was equal representation from each province it would take away tyranny of the majority. Things like the NEP would never exist where one area of the country gets to screw over another.
Hopefully it would also avoid things like tiny ass towns in Quebec getting hundreds of thousands of dollars for Canada Day celebrations and the like when Calgary gets barely a cent.