senate preservation league

But first, a few words from – yes, again – Peter Van Loan: 

From that same Legal and Constitutional Affairs meeting, a fine rant from another fiery Atlantic Canadian senator that left Peter Van Loan bristling with barely concealed rage.  (I’d actually recommend reading the full transcript; it was a great debate even if the government did make the mistake of sending an painfully overconfident pitbull to a sword fight.) 

So, much (much) earlier this morning, as I was musing and meandering over this latest move by the Master Strategician while attempting to unbrick not one but two Blackberries (no, you don’t want to ask), trying to figure out  why – other than the obvious – it seemed so particularly deliciously ironic — until finally, I remembered: Senator Wilfrid Moore, the canny Nova Scotian senator who very nearly managed to amend the Parliament of Canada Act to force the PM to fill those empty seats whether he felt like it or not.

It will come as no surprise to ITQ regulars that there will be no squeaks of horror emanating from this corner over reports that the (current) Prime Minister plans to appoint as many as seventeen shiny new senators by the end of the year. Our only complaint, in fact, is that it apparently required a parliamentary near death experience to remind him that, oh, actually, that’s his job – and he’s been downright derelict in duty by failing to do so until now.