I would just make an observation, and I recognize that this is a beginning rather than an ending point.
I look back to some of my experience in the environment field specifically. And I don't mean this to be as partisan as it may come out sounding, but there has been a substantial amount of funding cut by the current government from the bureaucracy that was used to do consultation, to do citizenship engagement. I'm wondering if we could look at the impacts and ramifications of that.
If I can use the illustration of species at risk and how it was held out as a gold standard of a process that worked, because it did deal with aboriginal traditional knowledge, and it did bring those people into the process in a very substantive way.... This piece of legislation took 10 years to finally come to fruition, so they had a long time to engage people. But I think we can't underestimate that kind of a more subtle engagement of citizens that isn't necessarily looking specifically at electoral reform but does make citizens feel like their voice is being heard, and in that instance it absolutely did help shape what the final product looked like.
