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Originally Posted by GGG
Worst idea ever. Having two houses of government that need to get re-elected is terrible. Just leads to more spending on pet issues in exchange for getting things passed. We have run as an effective single level of government for 50 years and we should continue.
And the bolded part is backwards. It should be that there needs to be a reason for each layer of government to exist. Provinces run just fine without a senate, so do cities and the federal government as run fine without one. So unless we can identify some benefit for having two different parties in power at once and justify tat change the senate should either be abolished o left as a money pit that doesnt do anything but at least causes no damage
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The benefit of having the second chamber (at least in the Westminster model), is the senate is proportional representation rather than representation by population like the House of Commons. Now we do need to adjust our proportional representation numbers (western Canada is under represented while the Maritimes is over represented), but the principle remains the same.