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Originally Posted by Flaming Homer
Many of them break the first one many times over (missing the sessions). In fact my papa (he's a little old so it could be semi-fabricated but he reads all of the newspapers religiously) told me a while ago about how there is a Senator that was living in MEXICO and recieving his pay checks while showing up for a few meetings a year.
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Yeah, I recall that too. The actual wording I have read says:
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a senator's seat automatically becomes vacant if he or she fails to attend the Senate for two consecutive parliamentary sessions
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So it looks like if you show up a couple times a year you can skate by. I agree we need change in the Senate. I'm not sure I want it to go quite as far as advocated by many people who post here, but at a minimum there should be stricter attendance requirements, required committee work (in committees with real value), a re-aligning of senate seats by province instead of by region, shrink the number of seats, and that is just the tip of the iceberg.