I am objecting to it on the ground that it is attempting to introduce a non-elective element into the Executive Council, purely nominated, the residuum of the old gang; that you can get, under this Bill, people nominated to this House who have never been through any form of election whatever except a bargain, except a nomination by the President of the Executive Council and the result of a bargain which was contained in a letter which is neither in the Constitution, the Constitution Act, nor the Standing Orders of this House. That is a degradation of a democratic principle. They had other machinery. Everything that is democratic in this thing could have been done without this under the Extern Ministers. I object to it because it is a further step in the abolition of Extern Ministers. There we had a case where we, in our Constitution, decided that we should not be restricted in the ambit of our choice, that we should not be restricted to the choice of the caucus of the Executive Council or the caucus of the Party upholding the Executive. We had there the principle where the House could go outside and choose its own Ministers, who would be responsible to the House irrespective of the Executive Council. We had that machinery, but this machinery is utterly degrading from that point of view. It is to give power to the Executive Council, which is a unit, which works as a unit, which has to be dismissed as a unit, to take in any recollection of the bad old days which they might have enshrined and put in cold storage above——