Senate committee seat debate about principle more than partisanship
Proponents of committee seat portability are wrong to frame the issue as one of Senate independence and senatorial autonomy. The less-glamorous reality is that committee seat assignment is a routine allocation puzzle that necessitates a negotiated solution.
As insider debates go, this one is for the cognoscenti.
And yet, the issue of how seats on Senate standing committees are assigned is important for what it says about decision-making in Canada’s Upper House.
A recent deadlock in negotiations on the allocation of committee seats has exposed diffe...
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