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Originally Posted by SebC

Can you find me some info on this? From what I can tell, the Senate reform bills died at the ends of parliamentary sessions (Senate reform section of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_of_Canada). What I can find, though, is that the Conservative senators killed a bill that had passed through the House, and that they did so by using the unprecedented act of calling a bill for a vote before any debate had taken place.

So much for just appointing Senators to prevent the Libs/NDP from doing so.

Yes, they did die at the end of sessions but only from successful Liberal stonewalling in the Senate. The Liberals have been open about resisting any change to the Senate for a very long time now, and while they controlled the Senate they just referred bills to infinite review/debate/etc.

Here's an article talking about their intentions from 2007.

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/loc...05?hub=Calgary

In terms of killing a private members bill that was totally designed by the opposition to embarass the government and was truly inactionable (private members bills cannot exact spending), I don't really see what the fuss is about.