Mr. Mireault, it seems you are a student: you are certainly studious. You have studied the effects of the voting system and the preferential technique, which creates or strengthens bipartisanism.
Australia is the only example of a democracy similar to ours that has had this voting system for a long time. In the last four elections, the country’s two main parties have had between 96% and 99% of members elected. We in the NDP do not see that as an option that provides better representation or that better reflects the votes.
You spoke about a two-thirds and one-third proportion between riding MPs and list MPs. That’s what the Law Commission of Canada recommended in 2004, and what Benoît Pelletier recommended during the provincial consultations. This ratio seems reasonable.
As for the size of the constituencies, is it reasonable to consider that some very large rural ridings might remain a single riding and that urban ridings might be merged into larger ones, with three, four or five MPs representing the same area? That could be done very easily in large urban centres.