http://www.tenthtothefraser.ca/2008/12/23/yonah-martin-nabs-senate-seat/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:56:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.tenthtothefraser.ca/2008/12/23/yonah-martin-nabs-senate-seat/comment-page-1/#comment-127 Neil Powell Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:18:48 +0000 http://tenthtothefraser.breebop.com/?p=77#comment-127 When Larry Campbell was appointed a senator I heard what has since become my favourite quote about the Senate: "Being a senator is a task less thanks." When Larry Campbell was appointed a senator I heard what has since become my favourite quote about the Senate:
“Being a senator is a task less thanks.”

]]> http://www.tenthtothefraser.ca/2008/12/23/yonah-martin-nabs-senate-seat/comment-page-1/#comment-118 TheLeftCoast.ca Wed, 31 Dec 2008 10:11:32 +0000 http://tenthtothefraser.breebop.com/?p=77#comment-118 Stephen Harper's choice of Yonah Martin as a Senator is truly deplorable and an example of partisan patronage at the very worst. What skills does she bring to the Senate? Skills other than the knowledge that she is obliged to support her benefactor...Stephen Harper. During the recent federal campaign she was ignorant or at the least, woefully uninformed, of MANY of the issues facing Canada. We have never really cared about Senate reform but this appointment makes us care a whole lot more about it than ever before. Stephen Harper's choice of Yonah Martin as a Senator is truly deplorable and an example of partisan patronage at the very worst. What skills does she bring to the Senate? Skills other than the knowledge that she is obliged to support her benefactor…Stephen Harper. During the recent federal campaign she was ignorant or at the least, woefully uninformed, of MANY of the issues facing Canada. We have never really cared about Senate reform but this appointment makes us care a whole lot more about it than ever before.

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