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Originally Posted by Acajack
How is that significantly different from what often happens today, which is that Senator Joes sometimes determine government matters in the upper house while sipping a morning coffee and playing Candy Crush.
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They're (usually) vetted by upper echelons of government leadership, including the PM.
And before we get any fun responses about orange juices, i'd like to point out that I think Harper purposely appointed people who he knew would be awful Senators to discredit the institution.
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Originally Posted by Acajack
But I don't think that overall we'd necessarily be dumbing down the institution if we went with a fine-tuned, refined, robust version of acottawa's plan.
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If we're choosing voters
at random, as acottawa described, then we almost certainly would be.
Fine-tuned, refined, robust is just speak for filtering out people who we (who?) don't want there.