Some truths about the government’s Senate reform plan

Not only are the Conservatives telling half-truths about how Americans came to elect their Senators, the Conservatives, unlike the Americans, are willing to flout our Constitution to achieve their ends.

The Prime Minister's Office and Government House Leader MP Peter Van Loan, who is minister for democratic reform, must have broken out the champagne upon hearing the news that Saskatchewan was going to follow Alberta's lead by introducing a bill in the fall to elect "Senators-in-waiting." Never m...

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