Monday, February 18, 2013
"The Prime Minister is calling"
The latest news is that more than one-third of Canadians say Senate should be abolished.
Only a third? I'm surprised -- I would have expected at least 80 per cent would want to get rid of the Senate.
In fact, I don't know why anyone would want to keep it.
But I guess its like the lottery -- lot of us think we're actually going to win a lottery and maybe a lot of us are also expecting to get that phone call from the Prime Minister someday too.
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Only a third? I'm surprised -- I would have expected at least 80 per cent would want to get rid of the Senate.
In fact, I don't know why anyone would want to keep it.
But I guess its like the lottery -- lot of us think we're actually going to win a lottery and maybe a lot of us are also expecting to get that phone call from the Prime Minister someday too.
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I'm for abolishing the Senate and reforming the House to something that actually represents the votes cast by citizens.
The existence of two houses is a relic of bygone centuries, when idiots like Lord Crawley ruled the roost, but were forced to accomodate commoners in the House of Commons; the Lords hung on grimly to power through a House of Lords, which had teeth to start with, but lost them one by one until it was reduced to a toothless echo chamber.
A bit like our own outdated Senate.
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