democraticSPACE.com/blog » – Senate Reform http://democraticSPACE.com/blog DemocraticSPACE is one of North America's leading non-partisan political websites. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:44:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 What to do with the Canadian Senate? http://democraticSPACE.com/blog/2006/12/what-to-do-with-the-canadian-senate/ http://democraticSPACE.com/blog/2006/12/what-to-do-with-the-canadian-senate/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:30:47 +0000 Greg Morrow http://democraticSPACE.com/blog/2006/12/what-to-do-with-the-canadian-senate/ I surely have strong opinions about reforms to the Canadian Senate. But I’d like to hear what you think before I opine on the subject — so convince me of your position.

The government has introduced Bill C-43 (An act to provide for consultations with electors on their preferences for appointments to the Senate). What do you think? Should we keep the Senate as is (recognizing that the government has already introduced term limits)? Should Canada institute an elected Senate? (called “consultations” so as to avoid opening the Constitution on the issue)? Should the distribution of seats be re-considered (perhaps having equal numbers between different regions i.e. the West, Ontario, Quebec, the East, or some such thing)? Should the Senate be abolished (possibly replaced with a parliamentary research body)? Let me know what you think. Here are some recent opinions that discuss Bill C-43.

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Jason Cherniak (Liberal)
Devon Rowcliffe (Green)
Prairie Wrangler (Conservative)
Scott Tribe (Liberal)
Red Tory (Liberal)
Werner Patels (Liberal)
A View From the Left (Liberal)
UW Habs (Liberal)
Big City Lib (Liberal)
Smok Wawelski’s Cave (Non-Partisan)
Robin Sears (Fireweed Democracy Project)
Rick Anderson (Fireweed Democracy Project)
Rootleweb (Conservative)
The Blonde Conservative (Conservative)
Wudrick Blog (Conservative)
Crawl Across the Ocean (Non-Partisan)
My Blahg (NDP)

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