Tory ‘strategy of despair’ welcomes confrontation with Senate: Sen. Joyal

Liberal Sen. Serge Joyal says the Conservatives are using the Accountability Act to create a crisis in the Senate, but the Conservatives say the Liberals don't want to be accountable.

Conservatives say Liberal Senators are resistant to accountability, but Quebec Liberal Sen. Serge Joyal says the federal government seems eager to implement a confrontational "strategy of despair" in the Senate, creating more public cynicism of the Red Chamber and generating wider support for the...

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