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I am not as well versed on this subject as I'd like to be. That said, opening the senate issue means, ultimately, another constitutional debate. Those are rarely good things in Canada.
The other thing is if we give more power to the Senate, and I believe that with an elected Senate we are heading to a situation where the Senate will assume more power, we do not have anything in the constitution that gives us a tool to break an impasse between the House and the Senate. As a result we would have a lot less efficiency in the system. Well, at least until we have constitutional reform to create those tools and that brings us back to constitutional reform.
The more I read, the more I think we should just abolish the Senate.
By the way, is it just me or does this really underscore Harper's hypocrisy? His appointing of a crony into the Senate and then giving him a cabinet position... the guy has never been elected (and there was a seat open where he could have run in a by-election).
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