If we try to get some consensus around the room about how to proceed with this, bearing in mind the fact that this has been brought forward a number of times in the past, I think it is, as Mr. Reid has just laid out, a legitimate concern that all of us should be concerned about, that previous committees grappled with and didn't resolve.
If we're going to be bothered bringing forward recommendations in our report, we shouldn't have six of one and half a dozen of the other. We should make a decision, and hopefully we can make a decision along the lines that Mr. Reid just suggested so that we--not we as in members of Parliament or political parties, but we as a nation--are protected.
As the Chief Electoral Officer indicates in the remarks that Mr. Reid just read out, if we were in a situation where Parliament has been dissolved, in effect you don't have a government and you're into an election period, and there's a strike.
Just think about that. Fortunately it hasn't happened, but what would happen?