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That's why I say we get rid of the Senate. It does nothing, so why the fuck don't we just dissolve it? No Provincial government has an Upper House, and I don't see why we would even need one for the Federal government. Some people say we should elect our senate, but really, we don't even need one.
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Just out of curiosity, is the House of Lords in Britain the same way, ie ineffective? Our Parliament is supposed to be based on the British model, so if the upper house in London isn't having any problems (that I'm aware of, correct me I'm wrong), why does ours?
I really wish we had hereditary nobility here. No country is complete without an Earl of Cumberland.
As concerns the election: the polls indicated the Liberals and the Conservatives to be neck and neck, but at the time I suspected they might be very misleading. Conservative support has almost certainly risen in eastern Canada, in absolute terms, since the sponsorship scandal and the Alliance-PC merger. However, in order for the Tories to make a breakthrough in Ontario, they would need to be well ahead of the Liberals in the opinion polls - because they would need the support of a majority of Ontario voters in many ridings in order to win seats there. There was strong support in the West, and limited support in the East, but the Tories simply cannot form government unless they get strong support in the East, which would be reflected in the opinion polls by a large Conservative lead.
Incidentally, the only province in which a popular majority of voters backed the Tories was Alberta. Slightly under 50% supported them in Saskatchewan, while their fortunes suffered a blow in Manitoba and British Columbia as a result of the re-emergence of the NDP as a semi-viable political force.