Assertion: senate's senator | /r/CapableOf | hold senior cabinet positions
Facets:
value: in order to ensure regional balance
type: PURPOSE
value: occasionally
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Occasionally, senators still hold senior cabinet positions (other than the leader of the government in the Senate) in order to ensure regional balance in cabinet if the governing party is unable to elect members in a particular region or province, e.g., when the Progressive Conservative Party formed the government under the leadership of Joe Clark in 1979, and when the Liberal Party formed the government under the leadership of Pierre Trudeau in 1980.