Senator Gold: I’m timing myself because I really could go on at length. You’ve really tossed a nice softball. First of all, my honourable colleague to my right was an honourable member of the Conservative Party in Alberta and is now sitting in my office. Second — and here I’m going to be careful — when senators are appointed to this place in the current regime, they are told — I was told because I don’t know what everybody else was told — to exercise an independent judgment, and that includes what group to associate with or indeed whether to choose to sit, as several of our honourable colleagues do, without affiliation with an organized group. Each group should look at themselves and ask why they are attractive to incoming new senators or why perhaps they haven’t attracted members. That is probably a more fruitful line of inquiry than the question that you posed.