Mr. Speaker, Alberta is having Senate elections this fall because they are sick of the Prime Minister's patronage appointments and they simply refuse to accept another Ross Fitzpatrick.
Day after day the Prime Minister has told the House he will ignore Alberta's wishes and will appoint his friends instead. Albertans are doing what the Charlottetown accord never would have allowed them to do, that is holding a province-wide election on senators.
Why does the Prime Minister think that his patronage appointments are more honourable than a democratic Alberta election?