Business of Supply   in Atlantic Canada, they got 100% of the seats. I wonder if the member would agree that this very debate is one of the reasons why we need proportional representation in Canada.

Salaries Act   and then have to go back and reverse it because there was something they did not know. That is important. It may be odd for the member, but I am thinking about this in terms of the feedback we got on electoral reform. One of the important arguments for proportional representation is getting

Business of Supply   a proportional system and over 90% of the experts said that a proportional system was the best for Canada. Then we heard all sorts of possible solutions, possible voting systems, and possible proposals. The government had but to pick one and put it to Canadians, but before it could

Business of Supply   preference, was that it had an alternate ballot. The result of that referendum was a call for mixed member proportional representation, which the Liberal government in P.E.I. decided to ignore. There are some similarities. It is not in respect to what people want. It is the behaviour

Extension of Sitting Hours   and they got to whine, so let us move on. That seems to be the attitude of the government in this motion. However, if the rationale for the supply days, or opposition days as they are more commonly known, was that the opposition deserved to have a certain proportion of the time to address

Canada Elections Act   that came out of an all-party committee on electoral reform, which many pundits predicted would not be able to come to a majority opinion on how to proceed with electoral reform, but it did. It recommended a referendum on proportional representation. That idea got quashed, even though

Extension of Sitting Hours   clear that the opposition is entitled to a certain proportion of the time in the House to bring forward the issues that matter, not just to it as the opposition but also to many Canadians whose view the opposition brings to this House and who are not represented within the government

Extension of Sitting Hours   of those other issues being heard in the right proportion, but if we extend the sitting hours as the original motion proposes to do, which is to treat only government business during those extended hours, then we have a situation in which the government is getting not just more House

Extension of Sitting Hours   important business in their ridings that they want to be able to discuss in the House of Commons. Opposition days exist for this reason, and there is a certain proportion of days allocated to government business and to opposition business. The government is not respecting this ratio when

Impact Assessment Act   that report, the government decided to throw it in the wastepaper bin. It is a theme, but the motivation behind that theme is not exactly clear. On the issue of electoral reform, by way of analogy to Bill C-69, one could imagine the government creating a really good proportional

COVID-19 Response Measures Act  , but that is not true. We hear from people who would like us to push all sorts of things, including proportional representation and climate action, which are things we remain very committed to. I know that the NDP leader raised the question of proportional representation with the Prime Minister

Income Tax Act   mental health supports, and we know that rural Canada is chronically underserved in a proportion even worse than urban Canadians, and they still do not have adequate mental health supports. Mental health is not adequately integrated into our health care systems across the country

Procedure and House Affairs committee   of that debate, but in the pandemic context where suddenly a much larger.... If we consider what five million people represents as a percentage of the normal turnout, it's a significant proportion. We're not talking about five million people as a percentage of the overall population. We're

Procedure and House Affairs committee   with a plan and a proposal—a recommendation, if you will—to have a referendum on a mixed member proportional system. Even though it was a majority Parliament, at the NDP's suggestion that committee was not a majority Liberal committee. It actually represented parties in their right

Procedure and House Affairs committee   ourselves in that situation. I think the first-past-the-post system is clearly contributing to that situation of anxiety, but I would say also, to the extent that some people are wary of mixed member proportional representation because they're concerned about minority Parliaments, I