Stephen Harper -The Strategist

Harper is tackling his election promises by forcing the opposition to go along or force an election something which I don't think the public wants and certainly something the opposition parties don't want because they are in such dissary that they would lose seats.

I can't think of any reason the opposition, and the public, wouldn't support Senate reforms.

Harper warns senators he'll get his way

Sep. 8, 2006. 06:19 AM

SUSAN DELACOURT AND TONDA MACCHARLES

OTTAWA BUREAU

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Stephen Harper is warning Canada's appointed senators that they'll pay a political price with Canadians if they stand in the way of his plans for an elected Senate. Those plans, the subject of an historic appearance by a prime minister at a Senate committee hearing yesterday, could see voters casting ballots for senators by the next federal election, Harper said. But he warned that if the Senate is unco-operative or obstructionist, even in the early stages of the process toward an elected Senate, he would detour around them — and Canadians could judge the senators accordingly.

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