This issue needs to be brought to the attention of the average Canadian. By doing so, it will be another step towards a Conservative majority.
He has used this issue as the issue upon which a prime minister has set a new precedent by appearing to testify before a committee of the Senate.
This is a step in the evolution of the unwritten, but important, part of our constitution.
Our unwritten constitution has evolved since confederation by acts just such as this.
Other steps have included inter alia:
-- Canada directly signing a fisheries treaty with the US instead of waiting for a representative of the Empire to arrive from the UK. (When he arrived, he was thanked by Canada and the US and was told that his services were not needed).
-- The King-Byng Wing Ding which materially limited the actions that a Governor General dare take with respect to dropping an election writ or refusing to do so, without any legislative body putting pen to paper to alter a single sentence in the British North America Act.
Now if this works, we perhaps will have an elected Senate without having to attempt the almost impossible task of altering any written constitutional enactment;
And as a prelude, giving the Senate a precedent for hearing testimony by a Prime Minister in Committee possibly a small step toward giving power back to Parliament and taking some away from the Prime Minister's Office.