Welcome to meeting number eight of the Special Committee on Electoral Reform. Today we have Professor Peter Russell, professor emeritus at the University of Toronto, and Professor Patrice Dutil from Ryerson University.
We greatly look forward to what both of you have to say about electoral systems.
Thank you kindly for making yourselves available this last week of July. It's greatly appreciated. Your input this afternoon will help us immensely.
Without further ado, I will now turn the floor over to Professor Russell for 20 minutes.