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Originally Posted by Titan
I am not sure I understand your point. Senate appointments do not face the house. The PM has sole discretion as to when and how. You may be saying that he should not do it but that is different. By appointing Senators he is only following how it has always been. There is no new precedent to follow. If you mean appointing while parl. is prorogued then you may have a point but I would still say this is just another part of running the operation of government, as the power resides wholly with the PM.
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Well when you get right down to it you have a PM who prorogued because he knew he would lose a confidence vote. Now he is loading the upper chamber with his cronies. Obviously as someone who cares about democracy I have a problem with that!