"There is a momentum behind change - we cannot put the genie back in the bottle."
-Jack Straw, British Commons leader, cited in http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=8f0ef114-32bc-4f0a-8e1c-cabfe7059461&k=26337
Sober second thought has always been one of the main functions of the Senate, but since that is changing too, I think it is extremely important that sunset clauses be added to all major new laws, especially reactionary laws, so they may be revisited in a few years' time once tempers have cooled. Otherwise we might end up too far down a certain path before realizing that's not where we were wanted to go.
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