A Political Zombie House ─ The Canadian Senate!

 

If you have seen the movie "Shaun of the Dead", you would have no trouble describing the Canadian Senate as a Political Zombie House!  Those in it serve little democratic purpose, yet they suck out almost $100 million taxpayer dollars a year.

 

The Zombie House has a protective force field

 

The Senate has a constitutional "force field" protecting it.  It can't be abolished; it can't be changed.  Only the Zombies inside can make something of it.

 

But they won't, because they are obligated to the political leaders and parties who appointed them.

 

Fight the Zombies

 

We must fight the Zombies.  We must elect Senators who are accountable to those who elect them  ─ you!

 

The only way to fight the Zombie House is to put an independent, free thinking Senator  inside it.  A Senator that works for you, and not for a political party, as do those who currently occupy the Senate.

 

I believe that electing independent, free-thinking  Senators for Albertans would be the beginning of the end for the Political Zombie House.

 

Bust the Senate Zombies!

 

Zombies can be beaten. Woody Harrelson showed that in the movie "Zombieland".

 

It’s time to bust the Zombies.  Use your vote to put an independent, free thinking  Albertan inside the Senate to fight the Zombies.  Elect a Senator who is accountable to you, not the political parties that appointed them!

 

Your vote matters – use it to elect independent, free-thinking  Senators for Alberta and rid the land of the Zombie House.

Make the Senate useful

 

 

 

Here's what I'm talking about

 

Senator Andrew Thompson has shown up for work only 14 times in the last seven years. But he has continued to draw his yearly salary. Parliamentary records list his residence as Kendal, Ontario, but he spends much of his time at his house in La Paz, Mexico

 

 

Senator Spivak, who rarely misses a session, says it is unfair for the institution to be smeared by the actions of Mr. Thompson, whom she said she cannot recall having seen in her 11 years in the Senate.

 

Pasted from <http://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/18/world/canadian-senate-substantial-power-but-not-much-attendance.html>