 Harper takes control of Senate with 2 appointments A recent review of the appointments by Postmedia News found that a majority of them have close ties to the prime minister and the Conservative party — despite Harper's previous scathing criticism of the upper chamber as a patronage dumping ground for LibeCommentsview comments in forum You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Meredith is the executive director and co-founder of the GTA Faith Alliance. Smith is a former football player with the Montreal Alouettes from 1972 to 1980. He was president and chief executive officer of the same team from 1997 to 2001 and again since 2004.
A Conservative government will not appoint to the Senate anyone who does not have a mandate from the people.
A Politician is a politician, is a politician.....
Some are worse than others.
Practiced with him on the football field too.
Good guy, with a good head on his shoulders.
Don't know if politics will corrupt him like it does to pretty much everybody else though.
Well, they got their wish and the PM still has to power to make Senate appointments.
The only difference being is that the opposition is howling like gut shot dogs about the PM doing what they wanted to ensure remained his right.
They can't have it both freakin ways. And BTW the Liberal dominated Senate we've seen for the last decade or so, wasn't created by immaculate appointment. Somebody put them there.
The Senate should be gone. It's no longer a sober second thought for Canadian politics and has become a dinosaur with more perks and partisanship than the House of Lords, of which many of our Senators seem to think they belong.
Meredith is the executive director and co-founder of the GTA Faith Alliance. Smith is a former football player with the Montreal Alouettes from 1972 to 1980. He was president and chief executive officer of the same team from 1997 to 2001 and again since 2004.
[quote="Stephen Harper":2lfaslrj]A Conservative government will not appoint to the Senate anyone who does not have a mandate from the people.
How do you suggest he fills those seats?
All the opposition had to do was agree to an elected Senate. But oh no, that's not how it's done, it would take away the right of Prime Ministers to appoint Senators.
Well, they got their wish and the PM still has to power to make Senate appointments.
The only difference being is that the opposition is howling like gut shot dogs about the PM doing what they wanted to ensure remained his right.
They can't have it both freakin ways. And BTW the Liberal dominated Senate we've seen for the last decade or so, wasn't created by immaculate appointment. Somebody put them there.
The Senate should be gone. It's no longer a sober second thought for Canadian politics and has become a dinosaur with more perks and partisanship than the House of Lords, of which many of our Senators seem to think they belong.
Like I said.....
Mis-leading headline anyway. Could have just as easily read 'Larry Smith, CFL player, CFL president, and publisher of the Montreal Gazetter'. Trimming it down to just 'football player' was a blatant bit of hackery to make it seem like the man's some kind of a moron instead of someone who's actually done and contributed something positive throughout most of his life.
(Cue Harper defenders and cries of "well the Liberals did it too" in 3, 2, 1...)