It's not YOUR senate, Steve.

First we have Harper yapping away about the Senate either accepting his version of reform or face abolition. But, there's no plan. We, the people who will ultimately decide, have not been presented with anything resembling a final configuration of Harper's Senate vision.

Just his "shoot from the lip" bullshit intended to keep his cheerleaders awake and try to lull the rest of into the false belief that he's actually doing something.

What everyone needs to realize, however, is that producing a more effective Senate has been something every prime minister since Pearson has eyed. The problem is, getting it done and still making it palatable to a large majority of the Canadian population.

So, what happened after Harper prattled on today? He got a lesson in constitutional meddling from none other than his newly purchased buddies in the Quebec National Assembly.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper is being warned against reforming the Senate without consulting Quebec first,

Wednesday, the three main parties in Quebec unanimously adopted a motion stating that “any changes to the Canadian Senate cannot be done without the consent of the government of Quebec and the National Assembly.”

The Quebec Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs Benoît Pelletier argued that the Senate remains a federal-provincial institution created to protect diverse regional interests. Mr. Pelletier insisted that Ottawa cannot under the Canadian Constitution change or abolish the Senate without first adopting a constitutional amendment that would require Quebec's approval.

“In other words what the government of Canada has the intention of doing alone, it cannot do it alone because it affects essential conditions and characteristics…that were essential to Quebec's adherence the Canadian federal compromise,” Mr. Pelletier argued in the National Assembly Wednesday.

Welcome to the Canadian federation you so despise, Steve. You're about to be given a clinic in Canadian constitutional affairs which some of those of who went before you also had to learn the hard way.