Good afternoon.
I want to begin by thanking the Liberal Party for questioning the current system we use to elect members. When I think of the current voting system, I compare it to the evolution of human beings who came from the jungle, then had kings and queens, and finally adopted the first-the-post system, which is a kind of a dictatorship.
I congratulate Mr. Deltell, who was elected with over 50% of votes, but what about the 40% of voters who are not represented? I am favourable to a proportional system, and I like the one Germany uses.
I want to mention that I was a candidate of the Green Party of Canada three times and of the Green Party of Quebec a few times. I ran every time knowing that I would not be elected, but I did so to give Canadians an opportunity to express themselves. I would like us to someday get to a proportional system where the one individual out of 20 who voted for the Green Party would be heard by the government. That is currently not the case.
To give you an idea of how much of a democrat I am, while I was running as a Green Party candidate, I put up signs for the NDP's Raymond Côté, and I would have become a member of all the parties, as that seemed important to me.