Tips on Beating Down the Conservative Menace
Next best thing to a democratically elected Senate? A Senate made up of people who Canadians have already rejected. Right?
Stephen Harper addressing the Council for National Policy in 1997:"...our executive is the Queen, who doesn't live here. Her representative is the Governor General, who is an appointed buddy of the Prime Minister.Of our two legislative houses, the Senate, our upper house, is appointed, also by the Prime Minister, where he puts buddies, fundraisers and the like. So the Senate also is not very important in our political system."
Because there isn't.
Next best thing to a democratically elected Senate? A Senate made up of people who Canadians have already rejected. Right?
ReplyDeleteStephen Harper addressing the Council for National Policy in 1997:
ReplyDelete"...our executive is the Queen, who doesn't live here. Her representative is the Governor General, who is an appointed buddy of the Prime Minister.
Of our two legislative houses, the Senate, our upper house, is appointed, also by the Prime Minister, where he puts buddies, fundraisers and the like. So the Senate also is not very important in our political system."