Thank you, Mr. Chair. Welcome to the witnesses and my thanks for providing us with those presentations.
My question goes to Mr. Macfarlane, but I would also like to hear comments from Ms. Goodman, and from Mr. Cooper, of course.
Canada is a federation, not a legislative union. Fundamentally, the idea was to guarantee minority peoples like mine that their rights would be upheld so that they did not find themselves engulfed by the identity of the majority people, in this case yours. The current electoral system contains mechanisms that provide protections.
In your view, if the reform of the voting method led us to choose a mixed-member proportional system, what measures would be put in place to guarantee that minority rights would be upheld?