Mr. Speaker, I listened with great interest to the hon. member. He made a reference to the Senate and how the Reform Party has been too negative about the other place and all the wonderful senators and so on.
I notice in the most recent polling that a growing number of people just want to abolish the Senate. An Angus Reid poll a few months ago said 41% want to abolish it, 43% want to reform it. There was a Pollara poll in December of last year that said 34% want to abolish it and 33% want to reform it.
I wonder if he would join a drive that has been spearheaded by the hon. member for Sarnia and me to abolish the Senate as a project for the new millennium in terms of increasing democracy in this country. It appears to be the wishes of the Canadian people. I know the Conservative Party has a very democratic leadership selection process in terms of being a grassroots party.