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Electoral Reform committee  The pleasure was all mine. Thank you very much.

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  Ninety-three per cent is what I like when you're deciding something absolutely major, and we got that in this country. If referendums are the way to go, I don't know why we don't aim for that.

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  That is a matter that was not studied or looked at in detail, sir. It was not studied.

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  In any system we devise, I would consider the need to reconcile the remote and rural areas where the historic linkages with the elected representatives, in my view, have appeared to be different. It could lead us to a very interesting system. There was another major attribute t

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  I will mention, by the way, that the political parties were not co-operating. The ones that favoured the referendum question being “yes” were a team together, but they were not co-operating. That had an impact on the results.

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  I read significant pieces of the guide, if not the total document, tabled by the minister with you yesterday. In it there is a good definition, a very good definition, of the various basic models—not the variations upon the themes, but the basic models. I found that to be quite h

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  My only parting thought is to reiterate one thing: this committee must run the process with the Canadian public. You must beef up how you reach out to Canadians and how Canadians reach out to you. This is the most significant piece of advice I can give you. It is not up to the go

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  I answered that I thought the turnout was satisfactory for the results that were obtained. Were they optimal? I will tell you one thing: it depends on the importance of the question. I liked 93% in one referendum—

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  In my remarks, I indicated that you were going to have to be careful with what you were going to decide because Canadians will have difficulty with closed lists, unless they are very short. As for open lists, they raise questions about competition between candidates from the same

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  In the voting system, you should alternate between male and female candidates to automatically end up with a 40-60 or 45-55 balance one way or another. Currently, the structure of parties and how local associations operate discriminate against the participation of women. It is ve

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  I'm sorry. I'm not getting the meaning of your question.

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  We need to get more involved in the communities where these people live. As a system we need to do that, as political parties and as candidates. They are regrouped. They're not alone. They don't understand our system, and we could do a lot more citizenship teaching about our elec

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  I can answer only based on conversations I've had with members from both categories. They see a difference as to who they represent. It's crystal clear: they don't feel they play the same role. This is based on a few conversations and is not an in-depth survey. They told me that

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley

Electoral Reform committee  I'll be very quick.

July 7th, 2016Committee meeting

Jean-Pierre Kingsley