On young people's initiatives, including extending the YoZone where discounted fares are valid, the commission's chair Ruth Redfern, late of our sadly-abolished Yorkshire Forward, welcomes action as showing to a generation discovering democracy that consultation is not just a talking shop.
And young audiences have discovered what democracy can be when it functions as it's meant to: something to sing about.
But, at heart, Harper's team are not that different from politicians across the developed world who have discovered that democracy is a pretty sweet theory but that, in reality, if you want to get hold of power and use it, there are all kinds of devious moves available that have very little to do with that antique idea.
One difference is that Hezbollah is in the Lebanese national unity government, whereas Hamas won the free and fair January 2006 elections to the Legislative Council of the Palestinian Authority, only to discover Middle Eastern democracy is only democracy if it produces the right result.
Insha'Allah Democracy chronicles one voter's journey to discover if democracy is possible in an unstable Muslim country, whilst providing a fly-on-the-wall exploration into a controversial leader, Pervez Musharraf.
All of this has lately got worse as people discover that democracy and free markets won't automatically turn the place into Switzerland...unhappy zoo animals don't reproduce, either.
But, as in Egypt, liberal and secular Tunisians are discovering that democracy is not so easily won.
A Storyville documentary chronicling one voter's journey to discover if democracy is possible in Pakistan and looking at a controversial leader, Pervez Musharraf.
"The free market is the only mechanism that has ever been discovered for achieving participatory democracy," he said.
