Does the Trudeau version of Senate reform deserve support?

One may conclude that the reforms coming from the Greene-Massicotte meeting and those from the Senate Modernization Committee as well as the Trudeau reforms should be given a chance to be considered, implemented and evolve. The success of Senate reform is squarely in the hands of Senators.
OTTAWA—The subject of Senate reform has been with us since shortly after Confederation with the main focus being the method of selection of Senators and, in recent years, the focus has been on the length of terms. In all this time, the only constitutional changes brought to the Senate have been on...

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