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Politics : Canadian Political Free-for-All

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From: axial12/30/2009 6:10:18 PM
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Reforming Canada's Senate: Adapt or die

Stephen Harper prods a relic

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"Should the Liberals continue to block Mr Harper’s reform bill, he may opt to seek the Senate’s abolition. “Canadians understand that our Senate, as it stands today, must either change or—like the old upper houses of our provinces—vanish,” he said when addressing the Australian Parliament in 2007. The do-nothings have been warned."

economist.com

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Yep. Costly, dysfunctional. Ridiculous.

Jim
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