Mr. Speaker, today a number of speakers have raised the issue of a vote of Parliament being not just a simple majority but a two-thirds majority to ratify the appointment of a new ethics commissioner. It strikes me, and I would be interested if the member could comment on it, that this might set us up in a situation where about one-third of the House of Commons would be put in a position where it would determine who the privacy commissioner would be.
Would the reverse also be true? If thirty-three and a third plus one did not want it, which could be in fact two opposition parties getting together simply to frustrate an appointment, would there be a situation where it would be extremely difficult to fill a position? It might in fact be fraught with a conflict on behalf of even those members or those parties deciding that they wanted to frustrate an appointment.
It does work the other way; this is the difficulty we have. Maybe the member could comment. Is it that the minority of this place in fact should determine what the decisions of this place should be?