Mr. Speaker, if the Reform Party had voted for the Charlottetown accord the last paragraph of clause 7 of the accord would have gone into effect which states “Matters should be expedited in order that Senate elections be held as soon as possible and if feasible at the same time as the next federal general election for the House of Commons”.
If they had not voted against the accord, there could have been an elected Senate as far back as the elections of 1993.