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Electoral Reform committee  The more I hear about MMP, the less I'm enamoured with it. One of the reasons is that I've been hearing that people's local MP is very important for them. But again, this is why I think the system I'm talking about makes the most sense. If you live in a large metropolitan area, i

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I have great confidence in you as committee members. I think, after you've been given a mandate to go out and listen, that you'll listen. I think you have to meet. You can meet behind closed doors and work out whether you have a consensus or not. If you have, I think you should

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I think our system right now is very effective. One man holds a lot of power, as was pointed out by one of the members on the committee. I think our system is very legitimate, and I think if we change the voting system, it will probably remain effective and it will remain legitim

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I don't think first past the post works, but I think Canadians prefer it because they know it. People would go with the devil they know rather than the devil they don't know, because they're not interested in electoral systems. Whenever I've lectured, not just to seniors' groups

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  It depends how radical.... Yes, it is a change. It's a dramatic change. I believe in responsible government. That's what you were elected to do. I didn't hear anybody saying in the election, either a party or a candidate, vote for me and I'm going to give you a referendum on elec

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I didn't hear it mentioned once on the hustings.

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I learned from your report on your Saanich—Gulf Islands constituents, who are very atypical. Look, they elect a Green MP. Where else in the country does that happen? I don't know what it is they're smoking out there, but having said that—

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I'm not sure I heard.... Is it how, if you provide all these alternatives, it increases voter turnout?

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  Well, it will affect election results because there will be all kinds of different strategies and calculations among the candidates. You're not going to badmouth somebody else if you want their second-choice vote, for example. I don't think it has any effect on voter turnout. I

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  The rules around elections are constantly changing, and we don't have referenda. The Fair Elections Act wasn't put to a referendum. The Election Expenses Act that took force in 1974, when for the first time parties' names were put on a ballot, wasn't subject to a referendum. The

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I just wanted to relate what happened in New Zealand—this is my understanding—when they introduced MMP. More women got elected, no doubt about it, but guess what? Power does not lie in parliament. It lies in the cabinet. Fewer women ended up in the cabinet because you had a trade

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  I don't know. I'm just saying the dynamic is different. It's parties that will want a lot of women or minorities at the top of their lists, but it will be party leaders who get together after the vote when there's a minority and say, okay—

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  If we could—

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman

Electoral Reform committee  Well, I'm sorry.

July 25th, 2016Committee meeting

Dr. Nelson Wiseman