Senate

There is an old story that is revered in my culture about a keen, diligent seagull named Thomas.  Generally, Thomas was part of an amiable flock of seagulls, but there was a small band of slothful seagulls that did nothing, but wander idly and look important while the other seagulls worked strenuously. Thomas - being the intelligent seagull that he is, believed that the act of the seagulls receiving greater amenities than most people for doing scant work was vastly unjust. So he convened with many of his flock-mates and convinced his fellow commoner seagulls to not provide the old/affluent seagulls with anything unless they actually do something to earn it.If only our country could be persuaded in the same way pertaining to the amending and abolition of the senate...

The senate was conceived to act as the second sober opinion to the house of commons, but in truth, they are just a bunch of loafers (much like myself) who occassionally sit in a room and rubber-stamp all the bills the house of commons brings forth - as a result of this they receive an exorbitant sum in the process. One thing that we could do to amend the herky-jerky system of the senate is if we amend  the senate by making the senate consist of a group of people who are passionate about Canadian Politics and are fully willing to partake in senate activities without getting paid money. That way, we can maintain our old Canadian laws which some people still treasure, without worrying about giving our money to freeloading hypocrites.

Yes, I called them hypocrites - they undermine the form of government which they claim to support: Democracy.  Instead of being selected by the people like the MPS, they are appointed by the Governor General with advice from the Prime Minister. With this knowledge, don't you think it stands to reason that the Prime Minister would skew the senate seats in a way that his/her party would have firm control over the senate? Is this the fair democracy that our government claims to champion?

Unfortunately, the process of amending the senate would be quite inconvenient. To do such a thing 50% of the country would need to vote for the amendment of the senate, and two thirds of the provinces (7) would need to be in favor of it, and who knows how much red tape would need to be passed in order to actually get to the voting stage. It would be much easier just to abolish the senate. Some Canadian law purists would be upset by it, but the truth is, the Senate is essentially useless with the House of Commons. They are just burning off government money that could be used for facilities like hospitals that actually benefit Canada.