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- Title: Role of the Senate in the Legislative Process.
- Author : Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Release Date : January 22, 2000
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 233 KB
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In recent years the Senate has played an increasingly active role in the legislative process and has been subject to much criticism for its efforts. This article argues that the Senate has played this role at various times since its origin in 1867. It also points out some recent developments that have changed the way the Senate works and how it is perceived in the legislative process. The Senate's rejection of the 1913 Naval Bill is perhaps the best known example of its playing an active and partisan role in the legislative process during the early years of Confederation. From 1922 to 1930 the Senate amended 25% of all bills -- both public and private -- brought before it, and rejected 7% of them. From 1930 onwards and for over fifty years after that, the Senate was compliant and passive and rarely challenged decisions of the other place. The Coyne Affair in 1961 stands out as one of the few times the Senate reverted to its pre-1930 mode when it voted to support a committee report that a Commons bill declaring a vacancy in the office of the Governor of the Bank of Canada be thrown out and that Mr. Coyne be declared innocent of misconduct.
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