That's a hypothetical question. We prefer to go down the path of trying to get incremental reform. If this committee's wisdom is that it's not something that's achievable, and this committee makes recommendations on how to proceed with asking Canadians about abolition, or if there's a suggestion out of this committee to ask Canadians which they prefer—a Senate that's elected, a Senate that doesn't exist, or the status quo—perhaps that's something this committee can suggest be put to Canadians in the form of a consultation.
I've come here, however, with the suggestion that this is a worthy incremental reform that will help to solve many of the problems with the lack of legitimacy of the Senate today. If you have, for example, better ways of electing people, if you want to use a different system from the one that's proposed in the bill, that's something worth talking about. Those things are all up for grabs.
But I think it's incumbent upon the people on this committee to wrestle with the fundamental questions and the philosophy and make real recommendations for how we can modernize a Senate that's well past its appropriate date.