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Harper has appointed 18 new senators
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/to...000/story.html
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper filled all 18 vacant Senate seats on Monday, a move he was expected to make some time before Christmas.
CTV broadcaster Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, Fabian Manning and Patrick Brazeau are among some of the familiar names who now have a job in the Red Chamber and who will collect an annual $130,000 salary.
The prime minister said in a television interview last week that making the move was "the only option" since his government has been blocked in its attempts to reform the Senate. Harper has a long-held belief that senators should be elected, not appointed.
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