Destroy, then save Senate

Re: Housing rules not clear, Kinsella says, Dec. 3. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has tried, unsuccessfully and in any number of ways, to “reform” the Senate.

After this latest revelation concerning Speaker of the Senate Noël Kinsella, I am reminded of the famous quote, attributed to an unidentified army officer during the Vietnam War: “We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

I understand that the Senate serves as a way to control the absolute power of the Prime Minister’s Office in a majority government situation. But the Senate, as it is right now, may have to be destroyed in order to save it.

LLOYD GAGNE, Nepean