So Bottom Line......
- The Senate can be abolished.
- We don't need the senate's vote to agree to abolition.
- Yes, abolition would require a constitutional amendment;
- which would need the House of Commons and all 10 Provinces to agree to the abolition amendment.
- All provinces are protected under the constitutions minimum representation guarantee.
Senate Reform and/or Abolition: How can it be done?
1) Some people believe that because Canada is a federation, there needs to be an Upper House, some kind of Senate, with representation based on membership in the federation. Germany, the US, Australia (and the list goes on) all have upper houses with equitable or equal representation of the sub-national units. ‘Canada has the only wholly appointed second chamber in the western world’ and that part, at the very least, needs to be eliminated if we are to keep the Senate.
