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Or so ITQ would assume, what with the formerly-Liberal-held vacancies starting to pile up, and the parliamentary circus coming back to town in just over a month. According to the Senate website, there are currently seven empty seats in the Red Chamber, and actually, that list is slightly out of date, since it doesn’t include Emyard Corbin, whose term expired over the weekend. Add in Lise Bacon, whose red letter day will roll around on August 25th, and we could be looking at as many as nine newly minted senators by Labour Day — presuming, of course, that the prime minister lives up to his constitutional duties, and doesn’t plan on restarting that ultimately futile war of attrition that ended with a record-breaking eighteen appointments in a single day.