Thursday, June 07, 2007

Canadian constitutional crisis by Liberals says Tories over Senate Reform

Even though I do agree with Government House Leader and Tory MP Peter Van Loan, that Liberal Senators stopping Conservative Members from passing the Senate Reform to shelve a bill imposing an eight year limit on senatorial terms until the Supreme Court determines if it is constitutional, is possibly creating constitutional crisis here in Canada, at least the Grits are doing so in a responsible fashion now, before with their majority government, they would make it by forcing bills and legislation on just about every issue that our Canadian public was diametrically opposed too and told them to just like it.

It is the Liberal dominated Senate's duty to ensure legislation is constitutional before proceeding with it, no doubt about that here, but did it really take them this long to finally accept that senatorial convention, even after Brian Mulroney used Section 26 to stack the Senate with Progressive Conservatives to pass the Goods and Services Tax in 1990, if so then perhaps we all need to serious take a long time looking at more reforms for this Senate that seems to be out of touch of its citizenry and reality itself.

While we are at it, could someone tell the Tories there to bring back their parliamentary conventions that have bit the dust in the last bit of time, such as individual ministerial responsibility, or even just letting their MPs vote according to the wishes of their constituents - but to dream!