I agree with you that participation is extremely important. You're right that we see this cooling off happening, where people aren't participating because maybe they don't think they have influence on politics. It's something we take quite seriously when we talk to our members, because in the same way when they vote on their collective agreements we need them to participate in that, we need them to participate in all types of politics so that their voice is there.
What we have in front of us I don't think is going to change whether people participate or not, except to say that if this goes through, when we're talking about rules 4 and 6, our members may get confused. If they're thinking of running for leadership roles like mine, then they can't participate in these volunteer politics because we're being told we have to choose between the two of them. That's unfair. People should be allowed to participate in politics. That is our democracy.