Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
I thank the witnesses. We are fortunate to have testimony of such high quality today.
I am not a constitutional expert; I am a regular guy. People in my constituency believe, as I do, that an elected Senate would be more representative of Canadian values. But I have questions. Correct me if I am wrong, I do not understand everything.
On the power to appoint, I thought I understood that, even if we succeeded in getting an elected Senate, section 24 would more or less bring things back to the way they were before, except that the Prime Minister could use the nomination list or ignore it entirely. I am concerned by the suggestion that freely elected people are not what the Prime Minister wants. From a moral perspective, what obligation to Parliament would he have about this list?