Mr. Speaker, I would suggest that maybe the Prime Minister is trying for the function of comedian instead of Prime Minister. He knows that the Charlottetown accord proposal was weak kneed and totally ineffective.
Why did the Prime Minister not take the opportunity to work with the provincial premiers and get an elected senator, the same way they did in Alberta with Senator Stan Waters? Why did he go the old patronage route? Is he simply trying to keep control over the entire parliamentary process like a dictator?