Electoral Reform committee  I don't know if I have 45 seconds, but here I go. It's a very blunt instrument that leads to binary choices on very complicated matters when we haven't even figured out what the questions are yet in a governance ecosystem. When I look around the room, I look at the age of this

Electoral Reform committee  That's been your job. Thank you for it.

Electoral Reform committee  I could go on, but it's wasting time.

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you. It would be a pleasure. This my fundamental message: whatever recommendations your deliberations take you to, rest them on our entire governance ecosystem. People want some change. People want evolution. Our system has to evolve in order to maintain that primordial c

Electoral Reform committee  I think you got the gist of my message.

Electoral Reform committee  Probably true. Probably true.

Electoral Reform committee  We still only have one out of 22.

Electoral Reform committee  Quickly, I think there are a couple of elements in what you said that need to be highlighted. As I've said earlier, I think it's an ecosystem; therefore, conventions, which are constitutional in our world and evolve over time, play an important role, and people need to understan

Electoral Reform committee  I think you have to. I think part of what you're commenting on here would also be about which ones in particular should be the subject of study immediately. By the way, it would also go a long way, I think, if the government were encouraged to put them up publicly in plain langua

Electoral Reform committee  I would support that description. Our model of governance has evolved from the model of responsible government that we evolved to before the BNA Act, and that system has evolved continuously. There are some provisions in the Constitution that speak to it. The rest is convention a

Electoral Reform committee  Let's not forget that we want to get them to the polls first.

Electoral Reform committee  I could give you a response on the degree to which they might match so that you can make the deliberation of where you want to go.

Electoral Reform committee  I would be happy to do so. I'll do it for you in writing.

Electoral Reform committee  It's hard to tell you how to implement something before you tell me what you're proposing to implement, but if I look at it as a conversation with Canadians that ends in implementation, I've given you some of the elements already. If one of the things we're trying to do is draw m

Electoral Reform committee  I don't think there's a relationship. That's because of the nature of the complexity and the issues, and the multi-parties, and all of the issues that are associated with actually casting your franchise, so I'm not going to go there.