Documents from the coming court battles over Senate reform
Paul Wells tracks down the arguments in the Bill C-7 debate
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Senate reform
Is Stephen Harper planning a late arrival to the Senate abolition party?
’Canada needs an upper house that provides sober and effective second thought’
What is a senator’s business?
Possibly the most interesting question raised by the case of Pamela Wallin
One month in the high-flying life of Pamela Wallin
In June 2009, the senator charged taxpayers $11,835.73 in travel expenses. Nick Taylor-Vaisey tracks her flight patterns.
The Senate and our alienated regions
A vaguely persuasive argument for keeping the Senate
The Harper government’s galling argument in the Senate reference
The government aims to change the amending formula by stealth
The Senate reference: the feds argue every which way
Paul Wells looks at the political strategy behind the legal argument for Senate reform
The Conservatives file their Senate reform factum
The government makes its case for moving forward on Senate reform
All the reasons to have a Senate
Defenders of the red chamber, summon your best rallying cries
The worst reason for having a Senate
On the ’dictatorship’ that would befall us if the red chamber didn’t exist