I put faith in the intelligence of the electorate. With a fixed election date, if governments try to use government advertising, it's patent. The electorate will know. If a government on the eve of a fixed election date starts engaging in government advertising, it will be obvious. Right now, particularly in a majority situation, governments can do that and the opposition doesn't know. So I think this bill will ameliorate the situation. It will give us transparency.
I also think—Mr. Owen may know more about this than I do—that this wasn't the problem in British Columbia. In British Columbia, the election date was obvious. The Liberal government of Mr. Campbell was very circumspect—not because of any law but because of the political consequences. The electorate can see through this. With a fixed-date election, governments are going to have to be careful, regardless of whether there are rules or regulations. Politically, they get into a dangerous field. What they're doing will be obvious to all the voters, more so than at present.