I'm sorry, I've lost a lot of your question. If you're asking if my impression is that fixed dates affected the effectiveness of government in the lead-up to the election, I would have to qualify this somewhat. The previous three elections in British Columbia all went to the very end of a five-year mandate. So it was customary in B.C., in the months leading up to an election, for the members to be somewhat distracted by the upcoming election. So I didn't see any difference with a fixed date. It was the same effect because we had had these full-term elections previously. Certainly in the year leading up to the election I did not note any difference in the behaviour by the political parties.
On September 28th, 2006. See this statement in context.