Thank you, Mr. Chair.
And thank you as well to our witnesses today. I think it was a fascinating panel discussion.
I do want to point out, in full disclosure, that I have an academic connection with Professor Dunn. I co-authored a chapter in one of his publications, The Handbook of Canadian Public Administration, and received a large paycheque for that, $133.33. Academic publishing does have a financial benefit.
I do have some questions for all three panellists, so I'll hopefully get through them all, and if not, I may come back in a future round.
I want to start with Professor Dunn.
Part of your proposal in your brief was maintaining a single-member plurality type of system, as well as regional top-up seats. I wonder if you could maybe elaborate on that a little bit, and whether or not the regional top-up seat might be better focused on a reform to the Senate and seeing the Senate returned to a more regionally based body or a regionally representative body rather than going through a representative change in the electoral system.