Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Ms. Perreault and Mr. Mireault.
You spoke about accessibility, which is your central theme, we understand, but you also mentioned the need to reflect the diversity of opinions and voices within our Parliaments.
Now, I just want to stress that, in the current system, MPs can be elected with 30% or 35% of the vote when there are three or four candidates on the ballot. In a case like that, it is true that people may think that their vote doesn’t count.
In the last election, nine million votes were cast to elect no member at all. That is also causing problems with representation. There are Conservatives on the Island of Montreal, but no Conservative MPs for the Island of Montreal represent those people. There are Conservatives and New Democrats in the Maritimes, but no MPs from those parties represent the Maritimes and Atlantic regions. We could give you scores of examples like this. For us, these distortions have an impact when people take the time to go and vote. They sometimes find that their votes don’t really matter, that their voices don’t reach Parliament.
How do you see it?