Yes, I do. I believe that bringing forward the bill and having public discussion of it does highlight for the public the desire to keep majority governments to a normal four-year span. That is certainly what we've seen out here in B.C.
I think it is also important to maintain some degree of flexibility to meet unforeseen circumstances that could come up. The generation of a public expectation is very strong in the current political culture.
It's also important to underline that a government going early to the polls doesn't necessarily have the advantage. It does in one sense, but we have a number of provincial governments that were defeated after calling a three-year election. The New Brunswick government is the most recent example; the Parti Québécois came to power in 1976 because the Liberal government went to the polls after three years; Ontario's NDP government was defeated in 1990—and so on.
So the people are willing to make a judgment. I don't see a great harm in relying on the people to pass judgment on whether an early election was or was not needed.