Mr. Speaker, I was listening to the speech by the hon. member for Joliette. It was like listening to a lecture in applied democracy. It was an extremely interesting speech.
For example, he told us that democracy is government of the people, by the people and for the people. He talked about retroactive participation and participatory democracy.
With respect to electoral redistribution, I would like to ask him a question. What really still upsets me is that regions like mine will lose a member of Parliament. It is true as well in Lac-Saint-Jean—Saguenay, and both are regions which, in my opinion, need stronger representation. I am thinking of the native communities in the north of my riding.
I would like him to tell me if proportionality would have any chance of correcting these errors in democratic administration. In fact, in our area, we are hardly even a democracy. In an area of some 38,000 km
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, where there are native people who have the right to be represented but their representative barely has time to meet them, that is certainly not an active form of democracy.
I would like to hear what he has to say on this subject.