Senate and Prime Minister Stephen Harper

Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Harper said the moratorium will save taxpayer money and force the provinces to come up with a plan to reform or abolish the discredited, unelected, upper chamber, according to Metro News. It will be our policy to formalize that. We will have a moratorium on further Senate appointments and Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Friday a moratorium on Senate appointments formalizing his practice over the past two and a half years of refusing to fill vacancies in the scandal-plagued upper house. The government is not going to take any actions going forward that would do anything to further entrench that unelected, unaccountable Senate, he said Friday at a news conference in Regina alongside Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall, a champion of Senate abolition. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.