Procedure and House Affairs committee  I appreciate that if that's the balance you're trying to strike, if it's all about having greater representation within the constituencies, fine, but then the way in which you select the MPs to be proportional should reflect the populations better. With what you have right now, t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I completely agree that MPs represent their constituents, both in the riding and in Ottawa. In fact, that's one of the reasons I'm arguing for such an overrepresentation for the territories. I think if we counted up the 10 most northern ridings in Canada, we would probably be cov

Procedure and House Affairs committee  The word “opposed” is difficult for me. I appreciate that you're asking this to try to get clarity from me. What I'm suggesting to you is that the things we need to hold to are our constitution, some realities around the differences that we need to accommodate; and after that we

Procedure and House Affairs committee  No. Let me be clear: the proposition that we have put forward was solicited from us several days ago. In our process we require that we go to a broader solicitation of our party before we get full endorsement, so what you see in front of you is the work of several people within t

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If what we choose is to use some projection of population, even over the short-term because long-term projections wouldn't make sense, that's would be no problem. The party hasn't discussed that in particular, but I'd be happy to take that back to our party to discuss it. As lon

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Pardon me, but I don't understand the question.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Could you cut the translation while the question is being asked?

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  My simple answer is yes. Over the past several years we've been in election mode, and so this is actually providing us a lot of time. It's not a major concern for us. Our major concern is that if these changes become law, they should represent Canadians as well as possible—not th

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much. I really do appreciate the opportunity to speak to you remotely. The Yukon is the most distant riding from Ottawa and so it is with some appreciation that we're able to speak to you without travelling to Ottawa. The Green Party does believe there is an imb