Thank you very much, Mr. Colas and Professor Montigny, for being with us today. Your comments are very interesting.
People often say that if we include a certain form of proportionality via the two ballots, that will complicate the system. I am counting on the voters' intelligence. Three-quarters of the OECD countries have a proportional system, and I don't see why Quebeckers or Canadians would be more confused by that than others.
I want to mention Scotland, where there are four levels of government. Each one of those levels has a different voting system. The Scots must be geniuses, because they manage to cope with all of that.
In 2004, after two years of studies and work, the Law Commission of Canada chose a mixed proportional representation system based on the Scottish model. Why did you choose the Scottish model rather than the New Zealand or Irish model? I would like to hear your point of view on that. Could you also explain the difference between closed lists and open lists?