William Thorsell's piece on the Senate in the Globe and Mail today should mark the collapse of senate reform as an idea anyone takes seriously anymore. [Link now fixed -- thank you, Mark.] That is, senate reform remains alive as a political objective, by a kind of inertial drive accumulated over all the years of Triple-E agitation. But surely no thoughtful Canadian should still take senate "reform" -- an elected, powerful upper house -- seriously as an idea about making Canadian government better.
Update, May 3: Janet Ajzenstat has a very different point of view.
