You Want an Elected Senate. Be careful What You Wish For

I must tell you honestly that I have been surprised by my survey on the question of The Canadian Senate.

The largest majority of respondents have said that the senate should be elected, rather than abolished.

I have believed for may years the Senate should be abolished. It is expensive and redundant.

We have an elected body of governors in Parliament.

If the Senate truly represented a serious body of "sober second thought," it might be worth salvation. But it is nothing remotely like that. It is a sinecure for party loyalists. A major salary, secretary, expenses, privileges and pension for doing absolutely nothing of redeeming value.

For example, take Larry Campbell, please!

Do you really believe that more elected officials will bring breaths of fresh air to a political scene that for many years now has been peopled by charlatans, fools and the chronically inept?

Money spent on this charade, elected or appointed, is money taken from health care, education, housing, agriculture, research and infrastructure.