Imagine who he would appoint if he WASN'T reforming the Senate?

As Dave points out

Harper froths at the mouth that he insists on an elected Senate and who does he appoint? People who can't get elected.
...Instead of elected senators, we get a steadily increasing list of electoral failures finding their way into Parliament. Harper's democracy.

A BCer in Toronto has the complete list of failed Conservative candidates who are now Canadian Senators.