Time to abolish Senate: Layton

Jack Layton of the NDP is quoted as saying that the Senate in Canada is "outdated and obsolete" and that "It's a 19th-century institution that has no place in a modern democracy in the 21st century,"

Huh?

Elected Senate yes, but this guy just wants it abolished. By doing so, moving from a bicarmel to unicarmel parliamentary system, the House would hold sole power with no checks and balances save the Courts. Although there are developed nations with unicarmel (parliamentary) systems, the vast majority of them have a bicarmel system.

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