Partisanship, patronage, threaten democracy

Prime Minister Stephen Harper's hyper-partisanship is tainting the Senate. The Upper Chamber is intended to be a check on excesses of partisanship in the Commons, particularly excesses of partisanship by the Prime Minister and Cabinet government. The Senate is a revising Chamber, a Chamber of "so...

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