Actually, I am quite pleased with the progress that is being made. I think the reality is that government, or the minister and government, will have to do the preparatory work and do the analysis of options, and quite frankly, this is something that has not happened before. So the fact that the deputy is actually coming here to say that he is going to do these options and present them in the fall I think is a big step forward.
I also think we have to be careful not to underestimate the complexity of the structure that will be put in place. There are several...there is the House, there is the Senate, there is government. It will not be easy to do this, so I think there needs to be a good analysis done of structures that exist elsewhere, to try to propose a model that could work here in the Canadian context. But obviously parliamentarians have to be involved in this. The deputy can speak for himself, but I think what he is proposing is the first step, to do some of that legwork, to do some of the analysis, and then bring an option that then can be studied by parliamentarians. Quite frankly, if Parliament were to take it on, my question is who would do it? Are you going to give it to the two clerks?
So let somebody do the legwork on it, and I think there's a technical-legal issue too that currently Public Works is the custodian. So there will have to be changes to whatever—I don't know if it's laws—to transfer custodianship to Parliament.
So I say I think progress is being made.