Mr. Owen, I'm from British Columbia, as you are, and we don't have to just speak in theory; we can look at practice. Correct me if I'm wrong, but British Columbia has gone through a full cycle of fixed election dates, and I don't believe those difficulties arose. I think British Columbians and the politicians accommodated that. You may have other evidence I don't have, but I'm not aware of any particular abuse by any of the parties. I think Professor Milner's paper about putting in a fixed election date is very good.
I always had that fear too that we'd move to some sort of American model where we're constantly campaigning, but the empirical evidence is that in those jurisdictions I've just cited this doesn't seem to happen. It's not happening in Ontario, to my knowledge, it hasn't happened in B.C., and it hasn't happened in the Scottish and Welsh parliamentary electoral cycle. We don't have to just deal in theory; we can deal in practice. Other Westminster models have adopted it. This phenomenon we had a fear about doesn't seem to actually arise.