Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon, gentlemen.
My questions are for Mr. Derriennic.
To begin, as you just repeated for Mr. Boulerice, we need to avoid ridings with several members that would be too large to prevent the proliferation of small parties. If I understand correctly, you are of the opinion that Parliament shouldn't have too many parties. Your preference would be for three to five members per regional riding. To that, you are adding the preferential system.
Have you done a modelling exercise for some or all of Canada to see what the system you're recommending would look like? Modelling is possible because there are polls about the second choice candidates. Since the committee has already discussed the preferential system at previous meetings, I think we will need to see the outcome to properly assess the quality of the model.
Take the Maritimes, for example, where the Liberals won all the constituencies. Theoretically, in a proportional system without preferential votes, the Liberals could still win all the constituencies, but it would become impossible in a preferential system. So it's possible that the first choice of the electorate would not be respected if we had to rank all the parties, right?