Tom Mulcair Avoids Declaring NDP Will Not Appoint Senators in Future

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Even after criticizing the current Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, for more than a few days on the appointment of senators that have recently become targets of a spending investigation, the leader of the official Opposition, whose party actively supports abolition of the red chamber, refrained from declaring that he will not appoint any senators in case NDP forms the next government.

Tom Mulcair tactically avoided answering a direct and unambiguous question regarding his intentions on Monday, which is just one day ahead of when his party will ask the Commons to debate a motion asking the government to correspond with the provinces to abolish the Senate. Mulcair was straightforwardly questioned outside the House of Commons, that “If you formed government, would you appoint Senators?” Whereas, the NDP leader replied, that “we’re starting now to explain exactly what we’re going to do, which is to work with the provinces and territories to abolish the unelected, unaccountable, and unapologetic Senate, and we’re not going to change our point of view. That’s been our position for the past 50 years.” Later again, when he was further inquired that if he wouldn’t appoint senators while his party works on abolition, Mulcair stated, that “we’re putting forward this motion now because our goal is that the Senate be abolished before 2015, when we will form government.”

In contrary to all this, currently the fate of the Senate will be decided by the Supreme Court of Canada, which has been asked to rule on the constitutional path the federal government shall follow for reforming or abolishing the Senate. The court will be hearing the case after November, 2013.

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