tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post8941960096591236325..comments2024-03-08T13:21:43.158-05:00Comments on Saideman's Semi-Spew: Senate ComplicationsSteve Saidemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09881915512311951902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-45264254344992004122015-07-26T20:01:48.103-04:002015-07-26T20:01:48.103-04:00The American Senate and the Australian Senate are ...The American Senate and the Australian Senate are both elected and both actually very actively participate in drafting and reviewing and passing legislation. The Canadian Senate is appointed and mostly irrelevant - it basically rubber-stamps every bill sent to it from the Commons.<br /><br />So no need to find examples of other unicsmeral countries and try to extrapolate or guess how unicameralism would work here - Canada is already unicameral in practice. And has been for decades, and that unicameralism has worked just fine right here, it's already been proven.<br /><br />To formally abolish the Senate would change absolutely nothing in terms of the effectiveness or representativeness of our legislature - but it would save us a whole lot of cash and remove one of the main tools of party cronyism and corruption.Andrewnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8446351548038522890.post-8972508087943908572015-07-25T13:38:43.480-04:002015-07-25T13:38:43.480-04:00Oh, reasoning by analogy.
Unicameralism isn't...Oh, reasoning by analogy.<br /><br />Unicameralism isn't the reason Hungary is in such dire straits, but it sure helped contribute to the fact.Bradnoreply@blogger.com