If it's consistent with the appointment of other officers of Parliament, I don't know why we would be opposed to it. Obviously our particular government is interested in trying to move forward by some means, in the future, to seek to elect or select through some form of democratic process the appointees to the Senate of Canada. On the surface I don't see why we would have a strong argument against the Senate's being involved to the same extent as they are in the appointment process of the other officers of Parliament. If we have a problem with this particular officer of Parliament, why wouldn't we have a problem with their being involved with the other officers?
On June 14th, 2006. See this statement in context.