Until there is a Triple E senate I will have no respect for our government.
Thursday, Dec. 11, 2003 Ottawa — Critics are accusing Prime Minister Jean Chrétien of a last-minute patronage spree, after he announced the appointment of his director of communications, Jim Munson, to the Senate Wednesday.
Mr. Chrétien, who retires Friday, announced the appointment as he returned home from a taxpayer-funded farewell gala in Paris given by French President Jacques Chirac.(Hurling vomit while ripping my hair out)
Canadian Alliance MP and House Leader John Reynolds said: "It's going to frustrate a lot of people. I believe the Senate should be elected."
A feisty reporter, Mr. Munson got into a shoving match in 1976 with Pierre Trudeau when the prime minister walked past reporters to the House of Commons and refused to answer questions.(Good for him but the Senate as currently constituted is a disaster in progress for Canada.)