When the Conservative government was elected, one of its commitments was to clean up the corruption in Ottawa. More particularly, there was the goal of creating an elected senate.
However, once they have achieved the reins of power they have filled the senate with partisan hacks which perform little, if any sober, second thought.
The most egregious example of this was the recent rejection of Bill C-311, the Climate Change Accountability Act, by the unelected Senate, without any debate by Stephen Harper's partisan hacks.
That's right, the chamber responsible for sober second thought in our legislative chamber, doesn't appear to even be able to fulfill half its mandate: that is, the senate being able to find enough gumption to have a second thought, let alone a sober one.
To add insult to injury, the senate was stuffed with Conservative Party members by a governing party which only received 38 per cent of the popular vote.
Climate change, like other public policy issues, faces significant complexity.
However, the Climate Change Accountability Act was a science-based proposal, which would have reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 80 per cent below 1990 levels, and it deserves more than unconsidered and reflexive rejection by unelected political partisan who put politics above the public interest and the well-being and, perhaps even the lives, of future generations.
It appears that the prime minister is more concerned about the well-being of stray cats than your grandchildren.
Thomas Cheney
Prince George
