Electoral Reform committee  Quickly, I think there are a couple of elements in what you said that need to be highlighted. As I've said earlier, I think it's an ecosystem; therefore, conventions, which are constitutional in our world and evolve over time, play an important role, and people need to understan

Electoral Reform committee  I think you have to. I think part of what you're commenting on here would also be about which ones in particular should be the subject of study immediately. By the way, it would also go a long way, I think, if the government were encouraged to put them up publicly in plain langua

Electoral Reform committee  Probably true. Probably true.

Electoral Reform committee  We still only have one out of 22.

Electoral Reform committee  I could go on, but it's wasting time.

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you. It would be a pleasure. This my fundamental message: whatever recommendations your deliberations take you to, rest them on our entire governance ecosystem. People want some change. People want evolution. Our system has to evolve in order to maintain that primordial c

Electoral Reform committee  I think you got the gist of my message.

Electoral Reform committee  I don't know if I have 45 seconds, but here I go. It's a very blunt instrument that leads to binary choices on very complicated matters when we haven't even figured out what the questions are yet in a governance ecosystem. When I look around the room, I look at the age of this

Electoral Reform committee  That's been your job. Thank you for it.

Electoral Reform committee  I'm glad someone asked me about a referendum. The best way to ensure legitimacy is for you to home in on recommendations that will demonstrate how the narrow focus of your question improves the broader governance question. Put that to the Canadians you're consulting with and di

Electoral Reform committee  I think that your work is fundamentally important here. I think the greater amount of hard work in the public domain that will lead to discussions that may or may not result in unanimity will condition the discussion and the conditions that are made going forward. I think there's

Electoral Reform committee  If you come back early enough.

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you. I'll touch briefly on this, and you can see it in my written submission after this presentation. I would think that, yes, citizens make the greatest connection with what all of this means to them in terms of outcomes. What is our parliamentary form of democracy, base

Electoral Reform committee  I think there's hardly enough time here, but I could always provide you with an answer in writing for your deliberations.

Electoral Reform committee  I would come to the conclusion that there's enough pressure for some form of reform. It's your responsibility here to determine how much reform the system requires and how much it can tolerate over what period of time. I think that if I had to rest my case on any of those things