Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy - good reasons for the abolishment of the Canadian Senate

Pamela Wallin

Mike Duffy

A recent independent audit of Canadian Senator Pamela Wallin's expenses has found ineligible claims amounting to as much as $140,000.

The 95-page report currently being viewed by a Senate subcommittee also reveals the Saskatchewan senator made attempts to change her expense paperwork after the fact. A controversy has arisen about where she actually lives - Toronto, Ontario or her home province of Saskatchewan. No one seems to know where this Senator of Canada resides. She is 60 years old.

Canadian Senator Michael Duffy, age 67, has been embroiled in controversy for months regarding his claims for expenses related to where he lives. He represents the Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island, but many people have no idea of where Michael Duffy actually lives. 

Canada is supposedly great on unravelling spy networks, defeating terrorist plots, and general snooping. But we can't figure out where our own Senators live in our own country?  No Canadian secret agent will ever be a new James Bond, obviously.

On February 28, 2013, the Senate committee of internal economy announced that Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, Mac Harb, and Patrick Brazeau would be subject to forensic audits to determine appropriateness of their expense claims.

Hi.  I'm a Canadian Senator.  This is my alter-ego

There are 105 Senators in Canada. They are appointed by the Governor General on the advice of the current Prime Minister of Canada.

In other words....these are political appointments. If we have a Conservative government then Conservatives are appointed to vacancies in the Senate. If there is a Liberal government, then Liberals are appointed.

Like many things in politics, it is all a bullshit thing. It is all about patronage. If you tow the party line, you may get lucky and get to be appointed as a Senator.

Proposed laws in Canada go before the House of Commons and then are ratified by the Canadian Senate. The Senate rarely, if ever, rejects bills passed by the elected Commons.

Their power is symbolic and nothing else. In other words, the Canadian Senate is an

The salaries of Canadian Senators would be
better spent looking after this dude and others like him.

Old Boys and Old Girls Club of fat cats who are rewarded for some perceived service to the currently elected party.

Senators are paid (as of 2010) - $132,300. They get housing allowances, travel allowances and pensions that carry them richly to the grave.

Senators can serve until they are 75 years old.

Many of them don't show up for Senate sessions. Others are observed drifting off to sleep. They are old, tired, sleepy, achy, bored and rich.

God save us from the greedy Canadian Senators.

They are like the birds of the air who sow not, neither do they reap and yet God feeds them. Why?

The Canadian Senate should be abolished entirely and their salaries should be given to the poor.

God save us from the politicians. Amen.