Thank you, Mr. Chair. My thanks to Professor Lijphart and Professor Pelletier for their presentations.
I would like to talk to Professor Lijphart first. Then I will turn to Professor Pelletier.
I would like to talk about the question of consensus democracy.
When all the regions of Quebec were consulted, the main question that people brought up was not so much the mechanics of election—with the exception of some insiders and experts—but the way of doing politics. That came up constantly.
People are very irritated about the “party line”, as we call it. How can a system of mixed-member proportional representation lead to more consensus democracy? Could it be done structurally? How is it that our current system would not, or could not, contain that form of consensus democracy?