{"id":228742,"date":"2019-09-11T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T18:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/podcast\/the-renewed-canadian-senate-2\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T01:04:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T05:04:49","slug":"the-renewed-canadian-senate-2","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/podcast\/the-renewed-canadian-senate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The renewed Canadian Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the Senate expenses scandal hit in 2012, it left the parties scrambling to reform the deeply unpopular institution. Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper had taken small steps over the past several years, but was hitting major constitutional roadblocks. Justin Trudeau took a different approach: in 2014, he removed the Liberal senators from caucus and asked them to sit as independents. Then in 2016, his government introduced a nonpartisan appointment process.<\/p>\n<p>These attempts to decrease the Senate\u2019s partisanship and increase its legitimacy have had mixed results. On one hand, the Senate is operating less on party lines, with senators from all groups more active in introducing legislative amendments; on the other, the process by which legislation moves through the senate has become much more complex.<\/p>\n<p>Walking us through the effect these changes are having on Canada\u2019s upper chamber is an all-star panel of guests: Yonah Martin, the deputy leader of the opposition in the Senate; Ratna Omidvar, one of the first new senators with the Independent Senators Group; Emmett Macfarlane, associate professor of political science at the University of Waterloo and author of the IRPP study, <a href=\"https:\/\/irpp.org\/research-studies\/renewed-canadian-senate-organizational-challenges-relations-government\/\"><em>The Renewed Canadian Senate: Organizational Challenges and Relations with the Government<\/em><\/a>; and Leslie Seidle, director of the IRPP research program Canada\u2019s Changing Federal Community.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the Senate renewal, check out the IRPP studies by <a href=\"https:\/\/irpp.org\/research-studies\/renewed-canadian-senate-organizational-challenges-relations-government\/\">Emmett Macfarlane<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/irpp.org\/research-studies\/moving-toward-new-improved-senate\/\">Paul G. Thomas<\/a>, as well as the <a href=\"https:\/\/irpp.org\/research-studies\/renewal-of-the-canadian-senate-where-to-from-here\/\">IRPP\u2019s round-table report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Download for free. New episodes every second Wednesday. Tweet your questions and comments to @IRPP or @jbugiel.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"image-caption\">Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sencanada.ca\/en\/about\/photo-gallery\/scb\">The Senate of Canada<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Do you have something to say about the article you just read? Be part of the\u00a0<\/em>Policy Options<em>\u00a0discussion, and send in your own submission.\u00a0Here is a\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/article-submission\/\"><em>link<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0on how to do it.\u00a0<\/em><em>|\u00a0Souhaitez-vous r\u00e9agir \u00e0 cet article ?\u00a0<\/em><em>Joignez-vous aux d\u00e9bats d\u2019<\/em>Options politiques\u00a0<em>et soumettez-nous votre texte en suivant ces\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/policyoptions.irpp.org\/fr\/article-submission\/\"><em>directives<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Senate expenses scandal hit in 2012, it left the parties scrambling to reform the deeply unpopular institution. Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper had taken small steps over the past several years, but was hitting major constitutional roadblocks. 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