Thank you, Mr. Chairman. This is an important discussion to have in a thorough, measured way, and I do agree with Madam Groenewegen’s concern that this has been an intense time here. There’s been a lot of emotion and a lot of debate, and it’s late. This thing deserves better from all of us. We clearly want to look at how we do this, because I’ve been in five elections, I’ve been through this process three
times, and I can tell you, the process needs adjusting or fixing.
It’s not that we give up our authority. Our job, in my mind, the more I think about this and I’ve been watching over the years, is we need to set up a good, solid process like we do in any number of cases and then we get out of the way. It is physically impossible for us in this forum to deal with broad strategic issues and not get caught up in the emotion of the moment, the immediate constituent political self-interest that might be there, and it’s not a forum to have that kind of debate.
I think – and I’m sure Mr. McLeod is listening carefully about this – this deserves more thorough and measured attention. Mr. Menicoche suggested, as well, we need to look at this away from the intensity and the emotion in this room and have a more fulsome debate. I see extreme merit in this, but I, as well, agree that we should probably do this at a different time.