Through the chair again, we don't envision the senators of the day being an enemy in any way. We've told a number of them that the first person from any province to resign and run would probably be elected in a landslide. Secondly, we are not trying to force any of them out, period.
We just want to fill vacancies. And the reason for that is that we want the Canadian people to have a timeframe to observe the work of elected senators and to see whether they think.... The only reason I know to have an election is that if you don't like the work that your member is doing for you, then you don't vote for them another time. I think that's the fundamental of democracy. I know that you people all live with that fact. You face an election every so often, and right now it's very tenuous as to whether there's going to be an election next week or next month, or whether it'll be next year.
But we also believe in fixed elections. We've said that we'd like to see senators elected for a six-year term, so that they wouldn't interfere with MPs' elections, most of the time. And if they are elected by the provinces, they definitely won't, because there are about three provinces per year who hold provincial elections, in which they can hold their senate elections at the same time.