I do not know how fair that was to the minister, Mr. Speaker.
Ontario in 2007; P.E.I. in 2005; B.C. in 2005 and 2009; the U.K. in 2011; and New Zealand in 1992 and 1993, when that country voted to adopt a mixed-member proportional system, and then in 2011 when it voted to keep it, the citizens of all of these jurisdictions on all of those dates were given a referendum on whether to change their voting system. Sometimes they voted yes; sometimes they voted no.
How would it be a disservice to Canadians to treat us like adults, too, and submit any new voting system for direct citizen approval?