Federal Election of Canada 2011, Part 5, The Senate

One thing I haven't hear about too much about, The Senate, with the only exception with Jack Layton during the debates. “I don’t know why we need so many prisons when the crooks seem happy in the Senate,”. He pointed out two issues with this one statement.

How dose our government works:

Parliament is divided into two “Houses”, lower and upper. The lower house is the House of Commons. The House Commons is where bill are introduce, debated on and if passed goes to the Upper House the Senate. The House of Commons we vote for our representative. Now in the Upper House, the Senate, we do not vote for these representatives, they are pointed by the Prime Minster. In the 2004 Election, the CPC promised to bring in an elected, equal, and effective (the "Triple-E Senate" ). However Prime Minster did not make this change in fact he continue to point senators (some are being under investigation by the RCMP with fraud charges). The NDP view is it should be abolished.

Now I believe it should not be abolished, however I do believe it need to be reformed, and this is what I think it should look like:

All regions of Canada should have equal representation, just like the “Triple-E Senate” (with the exception of Ontario, witch there will be 2 Northern and Southern Ontario and the Territories witch will be less. There is currently 105 seats in the senate, so we can increase it to 108. All regions will have 9 senators (exception of Ontario will have a total of 18 and the 3 Territories will have 9 (3 each). Why Ontario is has 18, the main reason is that Northern Ontarian has a different point of view to compare to the Southern Ontarian. Even economic is quite different. Where Southern Ontario is more manufacturing and high tech and Northern is more resource based.

Elections should be a fixed date, like every first Tuesday of October every 3 to 4 years. Candidates can be associated to a party in the lower house or region parties can be in the senate and not in the House of Commons. The Bloc Québécois can be in the Upper House and not in the Lower House.

Another tough is to add 9 more seats for the Aboriginal peoples of Canada. ( 3 seats from east, 3 seats from central and 3 seats from the west.).