Calgarypuck Forums - The Unofficial Calgary Flames Fan Community - View Single Post

evman150 · 01-08-2012, 06:24 PM

I believe senate appointments should go to the people the senate was designed for.

This group certainly doesn't include failed election candidates or partisan hacks.

What does it include? People such as foreign ambassadors, premiers, provincial cabinet ministers, distinguished mayors, other public officials with broad appeal. There is also a need for successful business people, noted environmentalists, academics, lawyers, doctors, etc.

The point of the senate is to balance the democratic camera with an aristocratic one. More democracy defeats the purpose of the senate. Appointing failed democratic candidates is doubly bad - these people are neither democratically elected nor aristocratically qualified.

The senate should be the "ivory tower" of parliament - it is no place for democracy (in the broad sense) and certainly no place for failed democracy.

01-08-2012, 06:24 PM	#57
evman150 #1 Goaltender Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Richmond, BC Exp:	I believe senate appointments should go to the people the senate was designed for. This group certainly doesn't include failed election candidates or partisan hacks. What does it include? People such as foreign ambassadors, premiers, provincial cabinet ministers, distinguished mayors, other public officials with broad appeal. There is also a need for successful business people, noted environmentalists, academics, lawyers, doctors, etc. The point of the senate is to balance the democratic camera with an aristocratic one. More democracy defeats the purpose of the senate. Appointing failed democratic candidates is doubly bad - these people are neither democratically elected nor aristocratically qualified. The senate should be the "ivory tower" of parliament - it is no place for democracy (in the broad sense) and certainly no place for failed democracy. __________________ "For thousands of years humans were oppressed - as some of us still are - by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable." - Carl Sagan Freedom consonant with responsibility.