Electoral Reform committee  Okay. The traditional modalities of the voting system have to be taken into account as well. We haven't discussed lists sufficiently. The ratio between constituency seats and compensatory seats has an effect on representation. The more the compensatory seats are reduced, the less effective the list-related rules are.

Electoral Reform committee  No, I'm a former president of Mouvement démocratie nouvelle. I recently became a member of the board of the Fédération des femmes du Québec.

Electoral Reform committee  In this context, it's my involvement with Mouvement démocratie nouvelle, as president, from 2003 to 2010, that is more important.

Electoral Reform committee  Let me begin by thanking you for your invitation. I should mention that my remarks to you today will be contained in a more formal brief; what you have, for the moment, are merely my speaking notes. As I mentioned, I have been advocating voting system reform for a long time—at the Quebec level, since 2003—but always with a view to achieving a combination of objectives.