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Senate a ‘colonial relic,’ should be abolished

Senate a ‘colonial relic,’ should be abolished, says former Mulroney-era Progressive Conservative MP Boyer Canada’s Senate is a “colonial relic” with “negligible significance” as a legislative body, incapable of reform and should be abolished, according to a former Progressive Conservative MP, constitutional lawyer and political science professor in a new, provocative book. “Because the best predictor of future performance is past behaviour, Canada ought not to waste any more time or money on yet another round of teasing out and trying on nebulous concepts around the non-existent possibility of Senate reform. Patience has run out,” writes Patrick Boyer, a two-term… View Article