I worked on Parliament Hill right up until my by-election was called, so I was used to coming in at seven—in fact, I was in at about seven this morning—but it was a change in culture for members who had been here for many years and many meetings. It did impact members in terms of question period preparation, in terms of their scheduling with stakeholders, attending events, that whole sort of thing.
The other thing that we noticed, and I was talking about this with my House leader earlier today, is that not only have we seen a decrease in the number of people who show up in our public galleries to view question period and to make us more accountable to the public, but also we have noticed that there has been a change among the media. In fact our press gallery attended when we were making the family-friendly changes at Queen's Park, when the government was suggesting moving it to the mornings. Our press gallery actually appeared as a witness and said, please don't do this.
We're noticing that there has been a change as well in the coverage. Usually by about one o'clock or two o'clock, there's a shift in terms of the public reporting of what's been happening at Queen's Park.
There are a whole host of changes, then, that occur as a result of that one change in the time when question period occurs. I can't speak from a government perspective, as I've only ever served in opposition, but I can tell you that it requires everyone to be in earlier, be on top of their game, and respond in some cases to media reports or issues that happened the evening before in their local constituency.