Perhaps I can respond on the last point about the public buying in.
Certainly any indications we have seen in terms of public will on Senate reform show that there's a very strong inclination among the public that the Senate be reformed in some manner. I think it's fair to say that following some unsuccessful constitutional reforms, the public was weary of reform and that maybe following on that they're now wary of reform. So incremental reform does seem to be somewhat appealing to them.
The government undertook some national consultations over the past year. One of the topics was Senate reform. There were citizens selected from across each province and from the territories to participate in a day-and-a-half session on democratic reform. One of the topics was the Senate. Overwhelmingly in those sessions there was a strong inclination expressed by the participants, who were randomly selected from the public, that the Senate be reformed. Indeed, they were wary of complex constitutional reform, fearing that it would end up, as many other attempts at Senate reform have done, going nowhere. That came out strongly right across the country, in every province.
Similarly, there was a corresponding national poll conducted to try to assess whether the views among the general public, which didn't participate in the forums, were different from those who participated. Again, the results were very similar. It was strong, as I recall, up in the 60% or 70% range. Here it shows that it was 79% of Canadians who support Senate reform in some manner. And there was strong support for incremental reform, that is, getting done whatever can be done.