Mr. Speaker, yesterday the prime minister angrily dismissed the idea of letting Albertans elect their own senator. In doing so he stuck his finger in the eyes of Alberta's premier, Alberta's Liberal leader, the legislature and the people of the province.
As a diversion he pointed to the Charlottetown accord but, as the justice minister will know, there is nothing in the current Canadian Constitution which prevents the government from appointing the winner of a provincial Senate election to the Senate.
What possible legal and constitutional reason does the government have—