text: So they are independent, are they?
  
  In reading over their bios, I am thinking that in their combined lifetimes they have voted Liberal, Green, NDP and PQ for about 97 percent of the votes cast by them...
  
  ... and about 3 percent of the time for the Tories, if that.
  
  So sorry, but this does not infuse the Senate with an air of non-partisan objectivity...