Is It Them Or Is It The System? Poem by James Bredin

Our Ottawa Senate aristocrats are not like you or me,
They have appointed positions with titles and travel for free,
No one knows how they got there because they were not elected,
Very few know what they do or did and that’s all that’s expected.

But now they’ve had a scandal for spending and charging too much,
Their figures show that they thought that we were a national soft touch,
And that was true for at least a hundred long years or more,
No one paid much attention as the public continued to snore.

Can the mounties charge an appointee with a criminal offence?
If the auditor shows that the numbers are an annoyance,
But these appointees are senators with titles very elite,
Would aristocrats in that category be so bold as to cheat?