High praise

The surprisingly strong opening to CanWest's final article on the Cons' Senate reform promise:

Perhaps the most striking aspect of the Conservative government's plan to reform the Senate is that there appears to be no plan.

If only any Cons were allowed to at least give the media something to work with, rather than leaving coverage of the party entirely to the imagination (or in the case of this article, to the 1988 Reform plan for the Senate), there might be at least some chance of winning the Canadian public over to what surely has to be a somewhat more concrete plan than has been stated publicly. But as things stand now, a media presented with no thoughts from the Cons can only assume that no such thoughts exist...which isn't doing much for whatever image of competence Harper presumably hopes to win.