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Originally Posted by Slava
I just wanted to point out that whether you agree or disagree its another one of Harpers broken promises. The legislation to have elected senators died with the end of parliament last time around for the election. That election was Harpers doing...and now of course he is appointing senators. One could assume that actions speak louder than words here!
A Triple E senate is a complete waste of time and energy. We already have an elected house of representatives and all the equality adds to this is more emphasis on regional differences.
The Senate is fine the way it is. It is supposed to be a chamber of sober second thought and that is the main purpose it now serves.
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Bunk, Harper went to the senate hat in hand during his first term to put forward ideas on reforming the senate, and who voted it down? The Liberals who had been placed there by the Liberal party because they don't want to see their plum positions put up for election.
If we do god forbid get the conservatives falling at the budget and we get a coalition by the Liberals, then there's no checks and balances in place as the Senate becomes a rubber stamp organization. For the Conservatives however, the Liberal dominated senate has become a blocking point for the opposition, see the Crime Bill as an example.
The Senate right now, doesn't serve the Canadian people, it serves the Liberal party of Canada.
Its impossible at this point for Harper to keep that promise, he tried to, but it can't be done until there's a more equal balance of senators.
If your going to hand out seats to this thing, then they should designate Liberal seats, conservative seats and NDP seats that make it a fairly even distribution.
Personally I would rather that there was no senate in this current form.