Mr. Murphy, I think it would be highly desirable, if the Senate is going to become in effect an elected body, to have provisions to change the representation of provinces into some form of equal representation, as was proposed in Charlottetown, and also to have a provision for dealing with gridlock between the two houses, something like a joint vote or something of that sort.
The government's problem is that it can only do limited things without a constitutional amendment. The Charlottetown accord was a very complex and very clever system for getting to a triple-E Senate, but of course it envisaged a constitutional amendment. Without a constitutional amendment, it's difficult to put these other things into place.
You can get along without formal provisions for conflict between the two houses. In the end, if one house says no and the other says yes, the bill fails, and that solves the problem. In a system of responsible government, if it's the Senate saying no and the House of Commons saying yes, that's not something we're used to, but I think we'll have to get used to more of that kind of thing if we ultimately evolve an elected Senate.