Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Good afternoon.
Forgive me in advance if I talk too fast. It is because I am nervous about making this statement.
I will start by saying that I agree with Samuel Leclerc about proportionality. I will stick to my notes and that will help me.
At the moment, we are seeing a lack of interest and trust in elections. That has previously been highlighted very well. I wanted to arrange my thoughts around three key words: integrity, legitimacy and representation.
As I see it, one of the defects that mars our perception of the integrity of our elected politicians is that they can make a career out of it. In terms of their legitimacy, they are lacking in support, and in terms of representation, it is the extent of their power. To protect integrity, we must not permit elected officials to make it their career. To protect legitimacy, we cannot make it into a system, as the preferential method does.
So legitimacy is not born of a preferential system. That is a false positive. In my opinion, to make representation acceptable, the extent of federal power must be reduced.
That is all I had to say.
Thank you.