Arrogant, Insensitive
Senate Lops
Another 10 Days of Sittings
It gets worse and worse.
In an article headed
"The hard worked
Canadian Senate"
in the May 2001 issue
of The Canadian Vindicator,
there appeared the following
three statements:
"By their sittings
ye shall know them."
Between January 14
1960 and November
10 2000 the Senate
sat 3,146 days
Over a period of
40 years the Senate
sat on average 78.85
days a year.
Stretching credulity
to the utmost, absolutely
ignoring the rising
tide of public condemnation,
the arrogant, insensitive,
appointed Senate has
let it be known it will
sit just 69 days in
the current year 2002.
At least two of those
sittings will be ceremonial.
Our sitting Senators
are giving up sitting.
In 2001 five of them
did not attend even
half of the scheduled
85 sitting days.
And if that isn't enough,
the penalty for missing
scheduled sittings has
been reduced from $250
to $190.
Last year the appointed
Senators raised their
annual salaries to $106,400,
an increase of 20%.
Add on support staff
salaries, office space
and equipment, free
travel, and a host of
other perquisites, and
the cost to taxpayers
mounts and mounts.
Any comparison of the
Senate with certain
U.S. corporations is
to be condemned. The
Senators have done nothing
illegal. And if Canadians
feel aggrieved, well,
tough on them. As long
as they tolerate an
unelected Senate, things
will only get worse.
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