An Honourable Senator

Good. I hope the ball keeps rolling.

Amen and alleluia!!

What a present for Canada Day!

Nice timing.

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht BGS, PDP, CFP

Commander in Chief

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Frankenstein Battalion

Knecht Rupprecht Division

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1st Saint Nicolaas Army

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What a snide putdown, however, with the parting words of 'Probably no one in Canada wants to be a senator more than him'.

Good for him. Now if only that he will admit his complicity in the railroading of Stockwell Day a few years back I would be really happy. Senator Hays sits (or did) on the Board of Directors for the law firm Mcleod Dixon which went after Day with the defamation of character lawsuit. Day made the incredible error of suggesting that it was inappriate for a sitting member of a school board to be defending pedophiles.Of course,this could all be coincidence and Mr.Hays had nothing at all to do with it.Sure,that must be it,just a coincidence.

To this Albertann Sen Dan Hays will forever live in my memory as the treasonous dog who brought Alan Rock and his dytopian road show to Alberta to sell flakey Liberal/Ottawa Gun control to the hicks.

Hays was a puffed up party bum boy then and I can't see a skunk that old changing stripes.

Once a partisan dogmatic Librano you don't leave the family that easily.

Hays has warmed that seat for a quarter century and was probably going to retire anyway...probably figured it'd be easier living with the folks back home he betrayed all those years voting for Liberal policies that Danaged us, if he went out disguised as a sent reformer...how frikkin' shallow Dan!

I appalaud Bert Brown finally Making it to the senate ( see Ted, ya shouldda waited) and I don't want to detract from the fact this is a great day of AB.

Let's just not canonize an old Liberal whore like Hays in the process...he could have done this years ago but chose not to.

Ex-senator Dan Hays is the scion of the Hays family. Why has he resigned?
His father, Harry Hayes, was a collaborator with Comrade Trudeau when Trudeaupia was set up in Canada in 1982.
'Nough.
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"George Washington Hays, former governor of the state of Arkansas; Harry Hays, Canadian Senator; Harry T. Hays, a general in the Confederate States Army ..." (via googlescraper)

Redux: I agree. Hayes is the epitome of the party hack evolving into a fat-cat useless Canadian Senator.

Hans: What's with your postings? You submit a post with a text of 11 words and follow it up with a signature block of some 40 or so words of gibberish. Once is funny. Beyond that..... boring.

It's heartening to see some Liberals seeing the light, and the writing on the wall.
An honourable Senator indeed. Moving on to other things instead of sitting getting the old musty crotch syndrome playing partisan politics from the Upper House.

In the Government House we have Joe Comuzzi coming into the Conservative fold and running again. There are some others considering the same move.

The Liberal ship even has Senators jumping overboard. By time Dion gets done, the only Liberals that will be left will be him, the Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, and a few other moonbats.

Who will jump ship next?

Sure, Sen. Hays may have gotten to the Red Chamber the traditional way (which suggests carrying a lot of the traditional baggage). But he is now doing the right thing.

We must remember that people can change. Welcome those good things that happen from that.

Oh when will the west stop whining over senate reform (I thought you Albertans wanted to separate, what's taking you so long?). It's worked since 1867 helping to create the greatest nation on earth, so why change it now. Besides, don't you remember Harper's speech last election when he said a Liberal Senate and Supreme court would keep his party in line?

"Conservative Leader Stephen Harper took efforts on Tuesday to play down fears about absolute Tory power in Ottawa.
Speaking to reporters in Quebec, Harper said a Tory majority would only be able to exercise limited power in Ottawa because of a Liberal-dominated Senate and bureaucracy appointed by Liberal governments.

"The reality is we will have for some time to come a Liberal senate, Liberal civil service. At least senior levels have been appointed by the Liberals, and courts that have been appointed by the Liberals."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/01/17/harper-abortion060117.html

Diomede, who said the Tories were going to win a majority in the House of Commons and Senate? I would not be shocked if it happened, but if Harper bases the reformed Senate off the Australian Senate, we are likely to see a divided senate with the governing party in the house not controlling the Senate. In the last 20 years, the governing party has controlled both houses twice in Australia.

Mr. Hays followed up his departure announcement with the release in late May of his paper, Renewing the Senate of Canada: A Two-Phase Proposal, which proposes a royal commission on Senate reform -- much like the one held in Britian.

Irony alert:

...Next spring, another step is scheduled when London will get its first-ever elected mayor. By the time that election takes place, under the original scheme, the House of Lords was to have been transformed into a body much like the Canadian SENATE, peopled with lifelong government appointees.

Blair's program, however, has run into snags, at least as far as the Lords are concerned. Accused of attempting to subvert the independence of the upper chamber by populating it with "Tony's cronies," the Prime Minister was forced into appointing a royal commission to recommend the future composition and powers of the reformed Lords. That commission, under the chairmanship of former Tory cabinet minister Lord Wakeham, is expected to issue its report by the end of the year. Much to the government's dismay, it appears to be about to propose a new House that will be partly appointed and partly elected, with considerable powers to review government measures, especially concerning relations with the European Union....

http://tinyurl.com/24cfnz

diomede, the greatest nation on earth, not. happy canada day non the less.

Well then jmorrison, perhaps you would like to move to whatever nation you'd feel more comfortable in if not this one.

Diomedes,Canada is a great country,just think how much better it would be if we were'nt led by the nose down the socialist trail.