When establishing the provisions for the upper chamber, the Fathers of the Canadian federatio
n did not provide a mechanism to break a deadlock between the two Houses, as they belie
ved the governments would be short-lived and that such a mechanism would not be necessary, nor did they want the governments of the day to follow the British practice of swamping the Senate with extra members simply to " carry out their own schemes.10" The British, based on their experience, advised our constitutional fathers to create a deadlock mechanism,
...[+++] however small, which they did.