More independent Senate providing sober second thought but defers to Commons
OTTAWA — With a potential impasse brewing in the Senate over his government’s latest budget, it’s tempting to wonder if Justin Trudeau privately regrets his decision to turn the upper house into a more independent, less-partisan chamber.
Not at all, the prime minister insisted in an interview with Global’s West Block on Sunday, it’s working out exactly as he’d hoped.
Just bravado?
Emmett Macfarlane, who advised Trudeau back in 2014 on the kind of Senate reforms that could be achieved without requiring a constitutional amendment, doesn’t think so.