Everything is Broken, Including the “Independent” Senate! Senate Leader Doesn’t Speak on Government Bills
Everything is broken, including Justin Trudeau’s “Independent” Senate.
Check this video out: Trudeau’s Senate Government Leader hasn’t made a Second or Third Reading speech on a Government Bill since February! He has a $1.5 million budget (what do all those staff do?), but he thinks this unacceptable situation is fine. Meanwhile, we as senators then cannot ask him about Government Bills! (This is NOT how things worked in the Senate when our Conservative Government was in power.)
The Senate Government Leader speaks for the Trudeau Government — “Independent” senators do not. Too often, these Independent senators (who are not part of the Government Caucus) do not have the answers we need. And, they (unlike the Government) are not accountable to get us those answers in a timely way.
This is yet another way that the Trudeau Government is treating the Senate like nothing more than a rubber stamp.
(November 7, 2024)