Archive for the 'Senate Reform' Category

Letter to the Editor

Monday, August 31st, 2009

The following letter was sent to the editor of the Vancouver Sun:
I am writing in response to Kim Bolan’s article published on July 23rd concerning the so called Senate hold-up of Bill C-15, which would impose mandatory jail terms for drug producers and traffickers.
The Conservative government has a field day every time a bill [...]

A Constitutional Crisis From Within

Monday, June 18th, 2007

As published in The Hill Times, June 18, 2007
“We cannot engage in a consultation process between premiers. To me that’s outrageous.” – Conservative Senator Raynell Andreychuk
Far beyond the boundaries of my usual confusion with the Conservatives’ style of governance (a never-ending love affair with everything American, an insistence on being referred to as “new” nearly [...]