Electoral Reform committee  I won't. I just think that it's worth experimenting with to see if it could cause more engagement and create a different culture in schools. If kids could vote, we'd better make sure we teach it really well. We don't have a position on lowering the voting age. We get criticized f

Electoral Reform committee  To emphasize the P.E.I. model, it's very P.E.I., but what a great homegrown model of how you would encourage and engage people in electoral reform. Interestingly, the ballot of the plebiscite will be ranked. They're at markets with their public information. The MPs are going in

Electoral Reform committee  In 1970?

Electoral Reform committee  I don't know about those, but I know that in P.E.I., politicians felt that if these kids were going to inherit the system, they should have a say in its choice.

Electoral Reform committee  We're making five two-minute videos in partnership with the great east coast group called Springtide Collective. There isn't any money behind it; we're trying to make it happen. Then, of course, we would do some brief curriculum-style downloadable documents. We've had some of th

Electoral Reform committee  I don't tweet very well, nor am I concerned about that, but I do take note every time I see credit card information or the Target data breach, all this sort of stuff, when thinking about comments that, “ You know, we should online vote.” I think Mr. Kingsley called this a gizmo

Electoral Reform committee  He thinks it's inevitable. I don't know what you'd call me, other than an emerging old man, but there are still important things that you show up for. This is one of these things. I think those strange things that we still show up for emphasize their special type of importance.

Electoral Reform committee  Can I limit that to how we would do it in schools?

Electoral Reform committee  Usually that's preoccupying enough. I don't know how we'd spend $10 million—well, actually, I would.

Electoral Reform committee  I'd train teachers all over the country.

Electoral Reform committee  If I were going to do it really well, and the timelines were different, the first thing we'd do is to train our teacher network. I'd be cautious of.... In my experience—and I can be totally wrong, and I might get some mean things—some people are really keen and eager about a cert

Electoral Reform committee  Exactly. And the money that you put in would guarantee you the number of educators that would then give you that guaranteed level of delivery. You could offer it to everyone and see what other delivery there is. Then I would do two things, and this is what we proposed to the g

Electoral Reform committee  Have citizens' student assemblies, the point being that they become experts on the system and are excited and go back into their communities and because they're kids, and you go to somewhere like Red Deer; Trail, B.C.; or anywhere like that, and they'll be on the front page of th

Electoral Reform committee  A handbook is a.... Anyway, I'm not going to be mean, but I didn't see that as a resource for an educator. Just taking things from the Library of Parliament, and putting them in, doesn't help. What's the hook of the lesson? What's this? You also need to know government 101 befo

Electoral Reform committee  We use technology in different ways to supply content. I'm expecting Ruby at some point to ask a question about online voting because she did so in the first few meetings, pretty seriously. To go back to what the real thing is, what's important—Marc Mayrand brought this up as we