They act as if their problems were not our problems, so go away, <br />And our prime minister who keeps appointing them, wants to stay, <br />Senators for life or at least until they are seventy five, <br />Then a nice pension while they are still healthy and alive. <br /> <br />Turns them into Canadian aristocrats and no one knows why, <br />No one knows what they do to get there other than look up at the sky, <br />And who are you to question their authority in this great land? <br />Without referendums or DWD as we follow their band. <br /> <br />If they impose term limits on the Senate; the Supreme Court is in, <br />They might say yes or no and maybe put the whole affair in another spin, <br />Will the appointees have to quit before they turn seventy five? <br />I can only imagine them now as they sit down and connive. <br /> <br />And like their provinial counterparts; could they be abolished? <br />Could that mean that our present system of government is demolished? <br />But who knows what the Supreme Court might decide? <br />Like they said to Sue Rodriguez who then quickly went and died. <br /> <br />But do we have the politicians with the guts to do all this? <br />Or could it go to the provinces and be dismissed? <br />Or is this like death-with-dignity, to be forever delayed? <br />Where all those with hidden agendas have it made?<br /><br />James Bredin<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/who-are-they-aug-17th-2013/
