Certainly I can tell you that has been contemplated and considered. What is common between the position of the government and your party is that an unelected Senate is not justifiable; a Senate that is entirely undemocratic and appointed without any accountability to the people is not acceptable in a democratic society.
Our hope, obviously, is that we can salvage the Senate by introducing a democratic element that has been absent until now by asking Canadians who they want to represent them. We think that kind of incremental improvement should be given an opportunity. We know there are some parties that don't want to see that opportunity because the Senate has served their interests very well, but I think it's difficult for anybody to seriously make the case, in the year 2008, that there is something inherently democratic about an unappointed and unaccountable Senate.