Monday, July 4, 2011

3897...Peter Worthington On The Senate

In this morning's son er SUN he comes up with the same proposal that I have been offering for years.

Six Senate seats per province, elected. He says nine year terms, I say six year terms coming up 2/2/2.

I don't know where he came up with his brilliant idea but mine was formed when I read a book by Franz Ferdinand, the Archduke who's murder sparked The Great War.

Austria-Hungry was a lot like Canada in that it was a collection of states/provinces but only two really counted. In A-H it was A and H; here it is Quebec and Ontario. Another similarity was that, just like Q and O, if A said the sky was blue H contested the fact that there even was a sky.

What the Archduke noted in America was the fact that the U.S. Senate offered some balance allowing lesser states such as New Hampshire and Vermont to have equal representation in one of the halls of government and to keep their views from be overwhelmed by the super huge states like Pennsylvania and New York.

It works.

In my view we should go to total rep by pop in the House of Commons [that means one seat for you PEI] and the six Senators per province.

Me and Peter Worthington. On the same page. Imagine.

WFDS

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