…About the Senate

By Bill Bennett

Kootenay East MLA

1. The federal government announcement that a committee will make recommendations to the Prime Minister about who should be put into the Senate does nothing to help B.C. and therefore, we cannot support it.

2. The Maritime provinces combined have two million people and 24 Senators. B.C. has almost five million people and we have six Senators. That is not “effective” and it is not democratic.

3. B.C. believes the Senate should either be fixed by making it equal for all provinces, or it should be abolished. This committee process is no different than how Senators were selected over the past century. The PM makes the final decisions.

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