Stephen Harper expected to name five new Conservatives to Red Chamber on Friday

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The Conservatives will have effective control in both houses of Parliament and greater sway over the legislative agenda after Prime Minister Stephen Harper names five new senators Friday.

The appointment of the new Conservative senators will end years of Liberal domination in the Red Chamber and leave the Conservatives just two seats shy of a majority there. The power shift could help clear the way for Mr. Harper's plans to reform the Senate itself.

The Prime Minister is poised to appoint two senators from Ontario and one each in Quebec, New Brunswick and Newfoundland and Labrador.

In Quebec, victim's right activist Pierre-Hughes Boisvenu is expected to be named to the Senate.

“I've concluded that if the opportunity presented itself, it would be an opportunity to serve the country and to promote the ideas I've defended in the areas of justice and public security in Canada,” Mr. Boisvenu told Sherbrooke's Tribune newspaper Wednesday, saying he had not heard from Harper at that point.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/pm-poised-to-seize-control-of-senate/article1448100/

[SidDithers]

1. Why all the articles from The Globe and Mail?...

The only good thing about the Globe is Stephen Brunt. They're far more conservative than the Toronto Star.

Sid

[ccharles000]

2. I don't know I was just looking at Canadian news.