Madam Speaker, I simply encourage people to look at this Angus Reid poll. They will come to the same conclusions.
Why waste time going through with a reform that no one wants and no one needs and that will likely be declared unconstitutional?
In 2007, in a speech before the Australian Parliament, the Prime Minister talked about the possibility of simply abolishing the Senate. In this speech, the Prime Minister said that Canadians understood that our Senate, as it stands today, must either change or, like the old upper houses of our provinces, vanish. Before his untimely death, Jack Layton said that the solution was to ask Canadians whether they want a Senate.
I repeat that, before wasting money and time, as we are currently doing for completely useless reforms and bills that make no sense, we could talk to the Canadian people and the provinces to simply ask them what they think.
That is what the NDP is proposing.