Tories, NDP accuses Trudeau of pitting region against region in comments on Senate
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, who has surged into first place in opinion polls, was hammered by opponents Sunday for arguing Canada should keep the Senate because it gives Quebec a big advantage over B.C. and Alberta.
“We have 24 senators from Quebec and there are just six from Alberta and six from British Columbia. That’s to our advantage,” Trudeau said in response to the new NDP push to have the scandal-plagued $91.5-million-a-year upper chamber abolished.
“To want to abolish it, that’s demagogy. It has to be improved,” he said in a story published Saturday in Montreal’s La Presse newspaper.
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Good thing he's a federalist
deflection time, is it?
Sorry, The Vancouver Sun is a Conservative leaning newspaper... anything they say about the Liberals is a flat out lie.
There are times that a think that the Canadian Senate is of more use to Canada than the US Senate is to US.
Look at how many Leftist papers there are.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspaper_ ... tion,_2011
That's just people with a leftist agenda posting on Wiki.
Partisan hackery aside...
Trudeau is making it increasingly hard to take him seriously as a national leader. Whether he meant it the way it sounds or not, it sure sounds bad.
Agreed. We and them - what kind of language is that for somebody that wants to govern all of Canada.
Without getting into a pissing match about which paper supports which party I'm just glad Trudeau is out there talking to the public. The more he speaks, the less chance he ever has of ruining this country.
I might as well ask this question I had on my mind since this story came to my attention. Where do you guys stand on the Senate? With Justin Trudeau in keeping it or with Thomas Mulcair in scrapping it? I must admit that abolishing the Senate appears to be the more enticing of the two after the recent scandals.
So something like six seats per province?