So we can go willy-nilly on a consultation process or not at all, and that won't intervene with anything? Could we not say, given the constraints of the Constitution Act, that whenever a senator retires there will be a consultation process with the public and the choice of the consultation process will be the person the Prime Minister accepts? You're saying the Prime Minister doesn't have to do a consultation process. He or she can pick any failed political candidate he wants, he or she, to that position, and this consultation process just sits by the side of the road. It's a matter of choice. Why is that in the bill? Why is it not guaranteed that there will be a consultation?
