representative nature of parliament
Posted: 2018/02/23
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The problem with the senate was maintained by Trudeau when he conceived of his reform, He specifically required the consultative commission submitting names of potential senators too ensure the persons were not behooven or independant of political party influence. The result is all persons submitted as candidate to the Senate have no authority to represent anyone other than themselvers.
The result is that the Senate represents 115 citizens of Canada while the House of commons possesses the authority to act (i.e. constitutionally represents) some 38,000,000 canadians.
The Senate can therefore have absolutely no influence in the political decisions of parliament.