Senate committee seat debate about principle more than partisanship
As insider debates go, this one is for the cognoscenti. And yet, the issue of how seats on Senate standing committees are assigned is important for what it says about decision-making in Canada’s Upper House. A recent deadlock in negotiations on the allocation of committee seats has exposed different points of view on whether Senators should be able to retain their committee seats if they change affiliation. An agreement has been reached by the leadership of most groups in…