Senate should stop using privilege to cover up abuses in the Upper Chamber

The unelected Senate continues to be one of the great, unresolved problems of our democracy; it can do good work, even great work, but on its bad days, it is one of Canada’s embarrassments.

The Senate's Internal Economy Committee, pictured last year. People seeking justice from the Senate—Mike Duffy, former Senator Don Meredith’s victims, and Darshan Singh—are getting parliamentary privilege instead, which is to say, getting the shaft, writes Michael Harris. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

March 9, 2020

HALIFAX—“Be you ever so high and mighty—the law is above you. Even if you’re prime minister.” Guardian columnist Clive Coleman writing on Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s illegal proroguing of Parliament. It has been a long time since the Senate danced like a puppet on strings th...

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