Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all the witnesses
I would like to thank the witnesses for their observations. They are most interesting.
It's difficult, I find, when we have panels with differing opinions. Diving in becomes more difficult.
Professor Maskin, you may be the only witness proposing this voting system, so I want to ask you some questions for clarification.
I think you'd agree with me that this would be, in Professor Lijphart's definitions, one of the majoritarian oppositional systems, as opposed to PR consensus.
I think you've put your finger on the difference, for me, in the very last line of your brief, so I want to dive in there. It's that while the first-past-the-post, majoritarian, and alternative vote objective is to select the “'right' MP” for a district, under proportional representation the goal is to select the “right” composition of Parliament. That really helps me.
I'm one of those very fortunate and honoured MPs who, at least in my second election, had 54.4% of the vote. Your system wouldn't change the result for any of the MPs in our Parliament who have over 50% of the vote in their ridings. Is that right?