Argumentative Essay: Should Senate Be Abolished?

Today, there is a major issue about Parliament related to Senate. The Senate usually examine bills to make sure that they are the most benefitting choice. They are also in charge of protecting the rights and interests of Canadians. As a result, Senate can be referred as a "sober second thought." However, a large number of Canadians disagree this and think that Senate should be abolished. Certainly, Senate is the useless system which rather affects society in a negative way. This is because the Senate costs lots of money, it is unfair system and the Senators do not perform any significant actions.
First of all, the Senate costs lots of money. In general, a senator has a salary of $132,300 per year as well as a Senate expense. The Senate expense can reach $300,000 in maximum but citizens are not allowed to know their expenses as well as spending limits and regulations. The Senators can spend huge amount of money on whatever they want without letting citizens know the products they bought. The Senators receive more money from the average salary by holding different positions. Since there is 105

senators in Canada, it costs lots of taxes which citizens earn from hard working. They are also employed until their age reach 75 years. It is revealed that the Senate costs taxpayers $106,264,111 per year without any pension plan, which is considered too expensive to citizens. Therefore, the Senate should be abolished because it consumes lots of citizens' money.
In addition, the Senate is unfair in the way senators are appointed and when they pass bills from the House of Commons. While the members of the House of Commons are elected by citizens, the Senators are appointed by the Governor General with the suggestion from Prime Minister. The Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, appointed 57 senators since 2006. Harper is the leader of Conservative Party and this is unfair since there are more than half of senators who are in the Conservative Party as well. The Senate appointment is also unfair because the number of Senators per each province is all different. For example, there are 18 Senators from Quebec, six Senators from Alberta while there is only one Senator from each Yukon, Northwest territories and Nunavut. For sure, Senators are appointed in the unfair way only by their party and the number of them are differ from each province.
Furthermore, because Senators do not perform significant actions, the Senate should be abolished.

In average, the most Senators work around 72 days per year. This is considered that they works barely three months every year and earn higher amount of salary compared to normal worker who devoted to his work every day. In fact, 14 Senators missed more than quarter of their work days last year. It is revealed that those appointed Senators do not represent the interests or values of Canadians but abuse their privileges. Instead of supporting, they also blocked bills democratically on intention. For example, in 2010, Stephen Harper asked Senators to veto the bill about climate change legislation that was passed by the House of Commons. Senators also have the authority to indirectly veto a bill on intention. Clearly, Senators do not work on the job that they are commanded to

do.
Undoubtedly, Senate should be abolished as soon as possible. This is because they cost lots of money, it is unfair system and they do not perform significant actions. The government should give more money to those people who actually work hard and those who desperately need help instead of spending on the Senators. It is evident that Senate gives more of negative impacts to the society rather than positive.