Back-burner Elected Senate ---- Elect the Governor General!

Robert Ede	Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:42 AM
To: hill times Cc: Bea Vongdouangchanh    Robert Ede  Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:59 AM To: torstar Cc: chantal hebert
Dear Editor, Thank you for the details on strategy and process regarding  Bill C-7 within Harper doesn’t want to wake ‘constitutional leviathan’ on Senate reforms, slowly building his case: Tory source and within Hébert: Harper poised to put Senate reform on ice Notwithstanding the virtues and flaws in this version of Senate-Reform 'Lite', and, notwithstanding the unfounded fear of many Canadians that a Constitutional Discussion = a Quebec-Secession Discussion, I believe the informed citizen would agree that we must first re-store the integrity of our as-written, 1867 BNA/Constitution's 4-tiered, checks-and-balances system before we dare initiate re-forms to any of the "internal moving parts" If it is universally agreed that an ELECTED Official is preferable to an APPOINTED one .... then let's hold elections to select the recommendation to the Queen of our next Governor General. If we can restore the mandate of the only Office empowered to "just say no" to a majority PM, by simply electing that Official .... then let's get it done!  My suggestion is an at-large vote, every-other General Election, using a single-transferable ballot to choose a person who will hold a single term as GG, starting 365 days after the return of the Writs in the General Election. The swearing-in should include a Public Reading of the Letters Patent constituting the Office of Governor General and Commander-in-Chief - 1947 and BNA-1867's Sections 12-13, 53-57 + s.90