PM’s Senate reforms to be ‘feast’ for constitutional lawyers

Ned Franks says government can't force Senators to retire after eight-year term limits without amending Constitution.

Constitutional lawyers will "feast" on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's eight-year Senate term limit law, if passed, because it won't amend the Constitution and cannot force Senators to leave the Upper Chamber, says one of Canada's leading Parliamentary experts.

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