Electoral Reform committee  Maybe we could meeting later or something.

Electoral Reform committee  Oh, I think so. I hope you will find the ideas in there helpful. I think they're very representative in terms of the effectiveness of the vote. When we did Canada, we did 138 ridings in 19 electoral areas, and they came out very well. I don't have the numbers before me, I am sorr

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  I'm not sure of the question here. Basically what I'm proposing is that we would have four, six, eight, or ten in an electoral area. I call them electoral areas. We have to put them together so they are adjacent and so on. In the Yukon, we had ten ridings in Whitehorse: four in

Electoral Reform committee  It's just that, to me, sometimes there are second-place candidates, or even third-place candidates, or fourth-place candidates, as far as first-choice votes go, who could be the most wanted or accepted candidate in that riding.

Electoral Reform committee  I don't think so, but the voting for the proportional seats is also preferential.

Electoral Reform committee  It would apply all over Canada. I didn't get to this part, but perhaps I could say it now. For proposed additional seats, only three additional proportional seats would be required for the preferential ridings proportional system to provide proportional representation in all prov

Electoral Reform committee  —proportional seats in the north.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, for the whole north. My concern is to have as many parties as we can representing the north. I'm not afraid of the three Liberal members here, but you never know what could happen in elections in the north. I think it's good to have both government and opposition.

Electoral Reform committee  You're talking about a region?

Electoral Reform committee  I like to see regions small. To me, Toronto would be too big a region. We split Toronto up into various sized ridings. I encourage you to explore the website, where you can get all the data on this. It was Ted Dean who really did most of the work; I was helping him.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  Well, it's not necessarily the second one in the riding; it's the party that wins the proportional seat.

Electoral Reform committee  No, the party has candidates in all of the ridings they were running in, and they didn't get elected to the preferential seat. So they are eligible for this seat. And it's the candidate that did the best in their riding.

Electoral Reform committee  Well, I didn't get that.