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More ironies of Canadian history – could Harper’s stacked Senate trigger an election at last?

Sep 24th, 2010 | By | Category: In Brief

Ever since Canada definitively became An Actual Democracy in the early 20th century (at the very least), its unreformed, “relic-of-the-19th-century” Senate has generally refrained from trying to defeat legislation duly passed by a majority of the democratically elected Canadian House of Commons. A merely appointed Senate in an actual democracy that tried to actually exercise […]