Mr. Speaker, yesterday on the television show Power Play the leader of the NDP hinted that he would drag Canadians into constitutional battles without a serious plan. When asked about Senate abolition, the leader of the NDP said, “There are other things that will be on the table....Newfoundland, Labrador and Quebec are going to look at their historical angles and some sort of protection there, so we have to take that into account”. His NDP democratic reform critic admitted that abolition will be “at minimum extraordinarily difficult”.
We have outlined our Senate reform plan both in legislation and before the Supreme Court of Canada.
Why does the leader of the NDP want to get Canadians into constitutional battles without a plan? What exactly “will be on the table”?