Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask a question to the hon. member for Richmond-Wolfe.
He has pointed out the constitutional contradictions in our era of transition. He has quoted two models, but they are completely divergent. The American model is not a House of sober second thought, like the one in Westminster. He admitted that. It operates equally as a House of sober second thought and as a body working as a constitutional check and balance vis-à-vis the executive power. In comparison, the German Bundesrat is certainly not a House of sober second thought. It is essentially an intergovernmental committee of high-ranking officials.
Is he then advocating one or the other as a model, for example, for a revision of the Canadian constitution?