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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I agree with Sir John A. MacDonald who said "the Senate was to be a place of "sober second thought" so that legislation would receive proper, careful consideration before finally becoming law."
I think there needs to be amending to the Senate - manditory attendance, term limits, perhaps allowing some regional decisionmaking as to who to nominate.
But I would rather see the Senate abolished before it was elected. We already elect our government; the last thing I want is to elect another level of federal government. If we want to elect more people, make the constituencies smaller.
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Why not elect with provincial representation as is already included in our Constitution? How would that make it worse? Make the senate elections different timing from the house of commons to give voters more power in how the country is run? What could possibly be the argument against that? I happen to like the people running a democracy, don't you?