I'm quite relieved to hear that.
If I go back many years ago, there was a report on leaders debates produced by the Centre for the Study of Democracy at Queen's University under the leadership of Tom Axworthy, at the time. It pointed out that in Westminster parliamentary democracy, we don't elect a prime minister and we don't have a presidential system. The leaders debates in some way ape what happens in the U.S. and can lead to Canadians forgetting that they're actually choosing their own member of Parliament in a representative democracy in a constitutional monarchy, in the Westminster system, and not voting for a leader.
I'm wondering if there's any way that the mandate for the debates commission can be broadened to meet some of the recommendations that come from that study from the Centre for the Study of Democracy of having debates, say, between a minister of immigration and each party's immigration critic, a minister of finance and each party's finance critic. The advice from that committee was let's bring into sharper focus for Canadians that we are not a presidential system.
Is there any scope for more than the main two signature debates?