Going back to the legitimacy of the process we're being asked to bring to the people of Canada, certainly questions have been raised about the exorbitant price of setting up a process that may or may not be implemented. But I'm not really aware of other democratic systems that work on the principle of “shall”, “might”, and “could”. “Will” is a fundamental word that we use. The government “will” do this if this is law.
We are always being asked to accept the principle that the Prime Minister would likely be bound, but he's not necessarily bound. Do we have any other examples of electing democratic institutions in the world where it's at the whim of a Prime Minister to accept the candidates or not?