The Triple E Senate Of Canada

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to improve it technically. In federal systems, the legislative review
function of the Senate is only secondary to their role in providing for
representation for various parts of the country in the national legislature.
Representation is selected in favour of the smaller regions, in contrast to the
first chamber, where representation is always based on population. Therefore
the functions associated with the Senate are legislative review and the
representation of the various regions on a different basis from the lower house.

The Fathers of Confederation originally intended for the Senate to play
the legislative review role. As sir John A. MacDonald said, the Senate was to
have "the sober second thought in legislation" and should not be "a mere chamber
for registering the decrees of the Lower House". They also agreed on a
particular qualification of Senators, which was intended to help them act as a
check against the majority in the Lower House. This qualification ...

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does not want them to use it, these powers may
not be exercised. In addition, most Canadians have reservations about
appointments to a legislative body for such a long term in this, a more
democratic age than when the Senate was established.

Senators in our Upper House do not really represent anyone except for
the one who appointed them-the Prime Minister. It is because of this reason
that they cannot effectively express the views of anyone since their appointment
lacks legitimacy in our democratic age. However, when Senators criticize and
delay the legislative process, they only remind us of how much could be
accomplished effectively if only they represented the people who had ...

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