Yes, exactly. In Italy there's been more change among ideologically different parties. But let me just say something about the comparative method generally, which is the same thing that's said about cybersecurity: be very careful, if I could respectfully say so. It's so easy to say, “They did this in New Zealand”, and so on. Well, that's not a federal state. Or they say, “They did this in England”. It has a curious kind of federalism with the European Union and Scotland and so on.
I'm a great believer in not overestimating the power of abstract reason to predict what's actually going to happen, and learning from experience. The way I thought it would roll out when I wrote this book was some province would try something, and at the federal level we could learn from that provincial experiment, but it did not happen. Studying other things is what I've been doing a lot of for the past 30 years, but it's also just reinforced my assertion of being very cautious. Is the federal level in Canada the right place to experiment with a fundamentally different system? Other things being equal, I would rather it was tried out at some provincial level. Let's see how it actually works in a Canadian context, rather than being too quick to say it worked in Italy or New Zealand, or whatever.