What’s best to do with Canada’s
unelected Senate? Saskatchewan’s Premier Brad Wall has left the dull team of incremental
reformers and joined the long-shot cause of outright abolition.
Although a prairie democrat by nature, Brad
Wall is now worried that too many other
provinces — as yet — don’t want their provinces to participate in Senate
elections. If some senators are elected and some aren’t, we’d find ourselves
with a “hybrid” Red Chamber. The horror.
Saskatchewan may be the most
progressive and politically sophisticated province in English-speaking Canada.
In half measures, it introduced universal healthcare to North America. It has
elected eloquent Premiers and effective compromisers in national affairs. Brad Wall is an eloquent
leader, at least.
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