The Canadian taxpayer is fed up with the Senate, a government body that does nothing except rubber stamp all legislation and exhausts nearly $100 million of taxpayers' money each year.
Yes senators are connected to major Canadian corporations and can provide a back-channel conduit to Canadian business for the government. Yes they sometimes give advice to our political parties in Parliament. But those are weak reasons for preserving a body which, at the end of the day, really exists as a way for the prime minister of Canada to reward his influential supporters, to keep them comfortable well into their retirement years.
No thanks.
As long as we're doing some belt tightening, it's time to close down this useless (to Canadians) body of gas bags and use the hundred million dollars saved each year to help a few more poor people in this country.
Yes senators are connected to major Canadian corporations and can provide a back-channel conduit to Canadian business for the government. Yes they sometimes give advice to our political parties in Parliament. But those are weak reasons for preserving a body which, at the end of the day, really exists as a way for the prime minister of Canada to reward his influential supporters, to keep them comfortable well into their retirement years.
No thanks.
As long as we're doing some belt tightening, it's time to close down this useless (to Canadians) body of gas bags and use the hundred million dollars saved each year to help a few more poor people in this country.
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