For many years Link has seen a provincially-elected Senate as the key to structural reform in Canada. The Alberta general election in 2004 included a Senate run-off. Link ran as an independent nominee among ten candidates, garnered 238,751 votes, and won one of four positions as senator-elect.

Though three of Alberta’s six Senate seats were vacant at that time, then-prime minister Paul Martin ignored the election results and appointed others to represent Albertans in the Upper House (Grant Mitchell, Elaine McCoy and Claudette Tardif).

Since then Link has worked with the other senators-elect to promote Senate reform – www.ElectOurSenate.ca. His six-year elected status ended on Nov. 22, 2010. Wishing to avoid an election Premier Ed Stelmach arbitrarily extended the terms of all remaining senators-elect to nine years. In an Edmonton Journal guest column the senators-elect criticized that decision as undemocratic and bad for the cause of Senate reform, and Link formally resigned his Senate designation in a letter to the premier the day it lapsed.