Ottawa Police Chiel Vern White...

Has Gone To Heaven .... as in Canadian Senate Heaven.

But first, a few did encourage me to keep writing my Blogs and ever since my hiatus, have asked me to reconsider.

So, in honour of them, I will bang out a few this week starting with Chief White.

Chief White came to Ottawa relatively recently and was viewed by most as an exceptional Police Chief despite his inability to speak French. I though lost much respect for the guy when several of his officers arrested a young lady for merely asking them why they stopped her and asked her her name. She was taken to the City cells where she was subdued and strip of her clothing by a male cop. Bear in mind the jail film shows that she was not resisting arrest. So what gives?

White came out initially saying that such action on the part of his force "would not be tolerated". A day or two later after the Cop Union got to him, White back tracked like a scared politician and began to give weak knee reasons for the assault upon this young woman. White had lost me as a fan.

In the recent Senate Appointments, gold olde Vern White was among their number. You know my view of the Canadian Senate - it is an anachronism, it is undemocratic and a monumental waste of Canadian Tax Dollars. If offered such a position myself I would tell the dear Prime Minister in as gentle of language possible to shove it.

Thankfully, most Senatorial Appointments are from the ranks of political hacks, flacks and ne'er-do-wells. And this strangely is a good thing since there is no point appointing good productive people to such a worthless institution.

Some uninformed people say that Senators do good work - and I will concede that a few - very few, do. But put yourself in the position of an MP who has to go to the people for his authority. Do you think that that MP has much use for a non-elected Senate appointee. You guessed it, in the majority of cases they hold the Senate / Senators in contempt.

So how does Chief White fare in all of this. If, as many of his fans proclaim the guy is a good top cop, appointing him to the Senate only compounds the damage done to Canadian Society. Ne er-do-wells are not missed - good cops are. Another sterling example of this is the Senate appointment of Dr. Wilbur Keon. The good this guy has done in the field of heart surgery and research is immeasurable. To have a chap like him languish in an unelected Senate is simply unconscionable.

Or maybe, given White's apparent ability to so readily jettison his principles he is just the kind of guy the Senate is looking for.

Either way, we need to get rid of the Senate as soon as possible and in the meantime continue to fill it with dead-wood to ameliorate the damage to Society.

As I see it...

"K. D. Bell"