Abolish The Senate

It is the vestigial remains of the old British Aristocracy, the House of Lords. In much the same way we have the vestigial remains of our reptilian past in our brains. It comes from the power of the rentier class over the rising bourgeois in England. To be a Senator you must be over 30, own $4,000 dollars in property, and be a Canadian citizen. Reformed it becomes a bourgeois institution delayed. "Saskatchewan Premier Lorne Calvert said on Wednesday that it's irrelevant whether senators are elected or appointed because the chamber is ineffectual as it stands." We need real political reform in Canada, including proportional representation, the right of recall (as the David Emerson affair has proven), and the right to referendum. All demands made by the labour left at the turn of last century. Which were then ripped off by the right wing populists of Preston Manning's Reform Party. Now joyfully abandoned by the Harpocrites in Ottawa. We must create sovereign/popular constituent assemblies, not controlled by the State or political parties, to reform this "Con" federation to take into consideration of workers and citizens rights, municipality rights, aboriginal nations and the Quebec nation, and to reform provincial powers so that they match national reforms. Read the rest of the article here; http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/2006/03/abolish-senate.html [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on March 8, 2006]

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