Will Canada ever have an elected Senate?

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March 8, 2007 - The Prime Minister discusses the status of two Senate reform bills to elect Senators and limit their terms to 8 years.

Bill S4 (term limits) has been held up in the Liberal dominiated Senate since May 2006; Bill C43 (elected Senators) is expected to be opposed by the Liberal opposition.

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  • Representation by population is definitely important, I agree, but I also think it would be more in keeping with our democratic practices to elect the Senate as well. How does having the Senate elected make them accountable to the PM? (I'm just going to skip right over the fashion comments entirely as they are totally absurd.)

    As far the clip itself, I think it is great - Harper sure has a good sense of humour - I like that!

  • Harper is a smart funny guy hehe.

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  • @VeryHugeAss and your a fucktard...

  • @KangaKucha Trudeau great? You are a retard!

  • Canada sucks. It does not matter what the government does in that shit hole. Canada is just an elitist police state. All the Conservatives are concerned about right now is outsourcing Canadian jobs to India. That little porky bastard from Burlington, Mike Wallace, is the head of the outsourcing movement. Meanwhile, all the jobs that were "created" by the government are minimum wage shit jobs.

  • what a smart ass!!!

    I'm for an elected senate, but c;mon, dont be a dick! especailly to great people in the 20th centary that made Canada great like Pierre Treadu!

  • @893160007 bad idea, fed and provinces already spend all their time fighting each other and premiers don't have time

  • @lkcwu Its popular to lock people up but maybe the senate doesn't think its in the best interest to spend money locking people up where they cant work. Justice is a balance between cost of incarceration and cost of lawlessness. Last time I checked Canada had dropping crime rates

  • @Ruralta Your right no one realizes the common plroblem with all polititians their elected

  • So the plan is to replace appointed senators, leaders who need not spin with the media (whose process of accountability is to bury bullshit with more bullshit) with some other application of elected representatives? Not in the best interests of people who have seen how contrived fear and panic have caused ridiculous legislation south of the border. Can I interest anyone in 9 trillion dollars worth of debt? How about we forget due process? Time to take a sober second thought.

  • each provincal gov should be a senator they are most intuned with each province and would have the best opinion and to make it fair ontario vote would be worth more then yukon

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