Senator Idol (or is that Idle?)

Ok. Lots of hubbub here about the plan for the Prime Minister to make more Senate appointments.

The arguments:

a) He said he wouldn't, now he is;
b) The Provinces won't hold elections, so what's he to do?
c) If he doesn't appoint SOMEONE the house is short Senators and even Liberal Senators are complaining about the vacancies.

So then, (this is why I should get one of these Senate seats) I've got the ideal solution.

Senator Idol.

Yeah - you hold auditions around the country in places like, oh, Quesnel, Vulcan, Kindersley, Portage la Prairie, Thunder Bay, Sherbrook, Glace Bay, etc.. and a panel of 3 judges, including, say, Warren Kinsella (Randy), Ezra Levant (Simon) and Audrey McLaughlin (Paula), select 100 Canadians from the group.

Then - we drop them in an isolated area in the middle of Nunavut, with adequate supplies and shelter to keep them from having to eat eachother, posting video cameras on them 24/7. Each week, they will be given a random "Canadian" task (beer chugging, shooting moose, snow shoe racing, hockey fights, etc.) After each show, every week, the Canadian public gets rid of 10 of them (or less if any should be eaten by polar bears, which would be like a "wild card" vote) - until the last 10 are left, out of which the Stephen Harper selects the 9 appointees in a final gala episode where we recap all of the zany and touching moments of the previous 9 weeks..

We have an "elected" Senate, we actually make CBC useful and, *gasp*, interesting.. and we get our Senate seats filled in a truly non-partisan fashion without a Constitutional amendment or the expense of another election process.

(Yes, Mr. Harper, you can contact me via this website should you wish to simply appoint me now, based upon my demonstrated brilliance in resolving this thorny issue.)