I know that I promised not to deal anymore with issues relating to our once proud…, now backward country known as Canada.
So I won’t.
Rather I will deal with a country similar to Canada – let’s call it Backwater Pays.
And let’s say the issue of the day relates to the reform of Backwater’s Senate.
That is to say, in the words of its Left Leaning Government – to make it more representative – more open, more respected and so on and so on ….
…You know, the usual Bull.
So that is the theory of the proposed reform – let’s see how it will work in practice:
The current Backwater Senate is composed of Hacks, Flacks and Ne’er-Do-Wells.
What the Government has promised to do in its recent Throne Speech is to create a Distinguished Panel consisting of Five (5) Distinguished Personages. This Distinguished Group of 5 is task with identifying Distinguished Canadians for inclusion in the about to become Distinguished Senate.
You know the Order of Canada types – the Maude Barlows and the Margaret Atwoods.
Sounds great – does it not?
So you might ask what is wrong with this – aren’t Distinguished Canadians an big improvement over Hacks and Flacks?
Well no, not really.
You see Hacks and Flacks know they are Hacks and Flacks while Distinguished Canadians think they are… well… Distinguished.
As such, Hacks and Flacks will not unduly challenge legislation passed by the Elected House of Commons whereas Distinguished Canadian Senators are most likely to think they are at least equal to and even better than, the Commoner Member of Parliament elected by the Great Unwashed.
The only problem with this is that in a true Democracy the Peoples’ Representatives should be Elected and Accountable to them.
In an Unelected and Non-Accountable Senate – the Distinguished Members are neither. They would though fit quite nicely in with Communist China.
So, dear Reader, Backwater Pays is going from Bad to much Worse.
On a positive note – thanks to the Senate’s upper age limit of 75 years – we need not worry that either Maudy or Maggie will make the cut. That is not to say they are not still totally Distinguished … only that they are Distinguished Elderlies and thus too olde for the cut and thrust of Senate Politics.
Oh, and one more thing – any similarity between Backwater Pays and the Country situated directly north of the US of A is purely coincidental.
As I see it…
‘K.D. Galagher’
