Now I come to the part that I struggled with the most. We can argue over how much time should be given for opening statements and all of the structural issues, but the key issue of who gets to participate and to what degree is the key zero-sum game. Right now it tends to focus, and has for several years, over the participation of the Green Party.
Looking back historically, it is clear that participation or non-participation of a party in the debates has been absolutely critical to the potential success of parties. In 1993, for example, it was critical to the breakthrough of the Reform Party and Bloc Québécois. Had that not been available, the outcome of the elections might have been very, very different.
That is not a neutral question, and the problem we are therefore faced with is this. We can either lock that in statute, or we can leave it up to the discretion of some commission or commissioner, which means that the fate of our parties in the next election, of the Parliament we get, and the policy that comes out of that Parliament are to some degree at the discretion of somebody or some commission. That's a problem for which I don't have a clever response. I'm hoping that maybe you do.
That is my final question, so in the remaining time, I'd be interested in what you folks have to say about that.