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Ted Morton is wrong to think that “the Supreme Court shut the door on Senate reform” and to ask the Prime Minister to abandon his constitutional responsibility of selecting good Senators to the premiers (National Post, April 28 and 29). Conversely, the National Post (“The Senate, like it or not,” editorial, April 25,) is right to say that the status quo for the Senate is not working and that an alternative would be “a more open, less partisan appointment process” that “would improve the quality of appointees while insulating future prime ministers from blame for appointments that went horribly wrong, a la Duffy.” This is exactly the Senate Reform proposed by Liberal leader Justin Trudeau.

The Trudeau plan consists of two phases. The first one has already been completed: Senators are no longer members of the Liberal caucus and have no formal responsibilities within the Liberal Party of Canada. In this way, they are exempted from partisan work and better able to focus on their Parliamentarian and legislative work. Justin Trudeau invited the Prime Minister to do the same with his own Senators. Unfortunately, although not surprisingly, Stephen Harper refused.