Reforms Are Need In Canadas Government

Reforms Are Need In Canada's Government

Canada is a country who's future is in question. Serious political issues have
recently overshadowed economic concerns. Constitutional debate over unity and
Quebec's future in the country is in the heart of every Canadian today.
Continuing conflicts concerning Aboriginal self-determination and treatment are
reaching the boiling point. How can Canada expect to pull herself out of this
seemingly bottomless pit? Are Canadians looking at the right people to lay their
blame? In the 1992 Referendum, "The Charlottetown Accord" addressed all of these
issues, giving Canadians the opportunity to finally let the dead horse be - but
oh, if it were that simple. A red faced Brian Mulroney pontificated that a vote
against the accord would be one against Canada. Canadians would essentially be
expressing the desire for Quebec to remain excluded from the constitution. How
could the Right-Honorable Mulroney expect anyone to vote on a document that
contained so much more than simply the issue of Quebec sovereignty? Ironically,
hidden deep within "The Charlottetown Accord," was the opportunity for Canadians
to make a difference; to change the way the government ran, giving less power to
the politicians and more to the people. This was the issue of Senate Reform.

Why is Senate Reform such an important issue? An argument could be made that a
political body, which has survived over one hundred years in Canada, must
obviously work, or it would have already be...

Reforms Are Need In Canadas Government

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