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Major Major · 01-29-2014, 01:31 PM

I'm a bit confused how Senate appointments are made and whether or not this would effect that. The PM and GG appoint new senators to replace those in their way out, and they pick senators (in theory) who best fit the job, or do they pick someone from the party of the outgoing senator?

senators also do a lot of fundraising for their party. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this, there is when senate appointments are bought with fundraising, ie. Duffie. Maybe this is a way to prevent that from happening should Trudeau become PM in the future, which frankly I think is inevitable. Or at least this is lending towards the optics that a senate scandle wouldn't happen on his watch. I don't know, it's very interesting though.

01-29-2014, 01:31 PM	#30
Major Major First Line Centre Join Date: Sep 2011 Exp:	I'm a bit confused how Senate appointments are made and whether or not this would effect that. The PM and GG appoint new senators to replace those in their way out, and they pick senators (in theory) who best fit the job, or do they pick someone from the party of the outgoing senator? senators also do a lot of fundraising for their party. While there is nothing inherently wrong with this, there is when senate appointments are bought with fundraising, ie. Duffie. Maybe this is a way to prevent that from happening should Trudeau become PM in the future, which frankly I think is inevitable. Or at least this is lending towards the optics that a senate scandle wouldn't happen on his watch. I don't know, it's very interesting though.