Patronage, patronage, patronage: the gift that keeps on giving

Why political patronage is so extensive in Ottawa and elsewhere in Canada.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper has just made eight more appointments to the Senate—including three close political advisers. That makes 27 new Senators in less than a year—leading Liberal MP Ujjal Dosanjh to call the PM "the Senate Patronage King" (quoted by Rob Granatstein, Toronto...

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