Mr. Speaker, our government is bringing forth meaningful reform to the Senate.
Just last week, 11 tough new changes introduced by our Conservative senators were adopted in order to govern travel and expenses.
It is, however, unfortunate that while our government is focused on delivering meaningful reform to the Senate, the leader of the Liberal Party has come out as the champion of the status quo, saying “We have 24 Senators in Quebec and there are only 6 for Alberta and British Columbia. That benefits us. To want to abolish it, that’s just demagoguery”.
These shameful divisive comments simply prove that the leader of the Liberal Party is determined to pit one region of Canada against the other.
When will the leader of the Liberal Party stop defending the status quo and join our government in delivering meaningful reform to the Senate? It is clear that the leader of the Liberal Party is in over his head.