The Great North

4 posts

Canadian Senate Mired in Ever Deepening Scandal

The Senate of Canada is, as randyfmacdonald pointed out two weeks ago, a useless appendage of the state, which has become a resting place for party bagmen to get paid to do not much of anything. As he noted at the time, two Senators were embroiled in a scandal over expenses (and in one case alleged criminality). Since then, the scandal has both deepened and widened. Many more Senators are facing allegations that they claimed expenses to which they were not entitled, and in some cases are facing allegations that they are ineligible to even sit in the Senate in the first place. Continue reading