Doing it before next fall's election is critically important for independent senators, who fear Trudeau's reforms could be easily reversed should the Liberals fail to win re-election. Of the 105 senators, 54 are now independents who have banded together for greater clout in the Independent Senators' Group. "The reform that Prime Minister Trudeau very courageously announced and implemented ... has to be completed," she said in an interview. Martin Acosta / Reuters Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a news conference on the final day of the G20 leaders summit in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Dec. 1, 2018. "A future prime minister of a different political stripe will certainly be able to appoint people ... who might have a slightly different ideological bent.

Source: Huffington Post December 15, 2018 16:18 UTC