You'd have to look for ways to balance it out. That would be something really interesting: if members submitted legislative proposals but did so anonymously and then, on the basis of secret ballot, you had private members choose a certain number of those bills that they would like to see go forward. The effect of that would be that we would be prioritizing bills that were most likely to get support in the House. We would then have the top 20 ideas from members of Parliament, not on the basis of a draw, but on the basis of the popularity of those ideas, be put forward, debated, and very likely, passed. It would create an opportunity to more quickly move forward with ideas that don't necessarily even have the support of the cabinet, but that reflect the kinds of things that members are interested in seeing.
It would probably make sense in the context of that vote for the selection of private members' business to exclude the people who are also excluded from bringing forward private members' bills. It is actually an expression of the will of private members in terms of what kinds of legislative initiative they would be interested in seeing. That's just one idea. I don't think you would want to eliminate the draw process as well, but it would create an opportunity for even a member who did very poorly in the draw, but who had a good idea for good legislation that would actually get support in the House, to move that forward.
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