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Harper, prime minister with a minority government, has used his newly-acquired majority in the Senate (courtesy of the Liberal Party) to stop legislation passed by the majority of MPs in the House. 

The bill was killed without debate — the first time in at least 70 years that the Senate has killed legislation from the Commons without a hearing, according to parliamentary experts.

“What he’s done is morally wrong,” an outraged New Democratic Party Leader Jack Layton told reporters in the Senate foyer. “This is one of the most undemocratic acts we have seen in the Parliament of Canada . . . This Senate should be abolished. It should be ashamed of itself.”