Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I want to thank all the witnesses for coming here today. I think I would like to start by asking Professor Macfarlane some questions.
Your brief is very helpful and clear, and again congratulations for the new baby.
I find you've taken a run at some of the academics I hold in highest regard. I thought I would start by asking about your comments about the term “false majority”. It's a term that was, as far as I know, invented in relation to first past the post by Professor Emeritus Peter Russell, a political scientist from the University of Toronto, in his book Two Cheers for Minority Government. I was wondering if you're familiar with the larger context in which he coined the term “false majority” to describe a government in place with a vast majority of seats but with a minority of public support.