Mr. Speaker, indeed the member's province is one of the ones that has made it very clear that it does not support this reform.
The minister of state said that his government would like to modernize our institutions and make the Senate more accountable. The key challenge is that the government continually, and I think I have made a few points on that score, has undermined democracy and our institutions and has made government less accountable.
I would say this is not the priority. The priority is to clean up the government's own act.
The Liberal Party of Canada requests, as we have requested before, that this issue be referred to the Supreme Court of Canada regarding the constitutionality of it and that there be consultations with the provinces, as any responsible government would do.