It's not an election process, that's correct, in the way we would normally conceive of it. It is really a consultation process. The idea is that the people who are selected from this will have a democratic mandate, but it is not an election process; in fact, the bill is constructed to make sure that the actual selection process and the criteria for selection remain as they are now, because to change to a fully elected process would require a complex constitutional amendment, which this bill doesn't do.
On April 2nd, 2008. See this statement in context.