"Despite the fine work of many individual senators, the Upper House remains a dumping ground for the favoured cronies of the prime minister," Stephen Harper's leadership website said on Jan. 15, 2004.
Harper, then a Reform MP, told the Commons on March 7, 1996: "Canadians from Newfoundland and Labrador to British Columbia remain ashamed of Canada's senior legislative body. They are ashamed the prime minister continues the disgraceful, undemocratic appointment of undemocratic Liberals to the undemocratic Senate to pass all too often undemocratic legislation." (Toronto Star, Aug 27, 2009):
In the Senate, the new majority is the Harper Party "David Akin's On the Hill" http://bit.ly/y2FqWk
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And the Liberals are complaining... why?
Nice try James;
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/01/06/harpers-senate-reform-plans-may-forever-change-how-canada-is-governed/
Great Senate reform plans there. We move from a chamber where the members might be utterly beholden to the prime minister/party leader (blackmail, blind ideology, etc), to a chamber where the members will be beholden to the party leader, as in the house. Sigh. Totalitarianism is depressing. Moreso when wrapped in a cloak of "freedom".
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