Thank you Mr. Chair.
Mr. Montigny and Mr. Colas, welcome to the committee. Your presentations were very instructive. I was very happy to hear them.
Before asking my questions, I would like to express some constructive criticism to the committee. Yesterday, in Toronto, we were patting ourselves on the back because we had a group of witnesses that was made up of three women. This was the first time that had happened. Today, however, all of the witnesses were men. Also, there are no women among the few observers present. We'll have to do better in future meetings. I am talking about a representative women's presence.
My first question is addressed to you, Mr. Montigny.
I was surprised by one of the statistics taken from the CROP poll conducted in Quebec in 2015. According to what you said, 70% of the population was in favour of some type of proportional representation.
I'd like to follow up on something my colleague Alain Rayes said. And in fact both Ms. Romanado and myself were talking about this earlier. We were saying that when we talk about the voting system in our ridings, people do not understand the term “single member plurality system”, or the term “proportional representation”, and so on.
How was that statistic arrived at?