Abolishing Senate may be much more difficult than anyone realizes

The Prime Minister's just trying to return more power to the provinces by giving the provinces an opportunity to fill the 18 vacancies in the Senate with elected Senators.

A significant number of ordinary Canadians have expressed their opinion that the Canadian Senate should be abolished. Their opinion is not much different from that of some pundits who routinely vilify the institution in their columns and the national media who regularly paint the Senate as useles...

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