Procedure and House Affairs committee  Fortunately, it isn't a trade-off, as you know.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you get more women and more minorities so that the Parliament looks more like Canada, that actually expands participation as well. As you know, I started off with the two provisions, which really would both expand representation, one of which is electoral reform towards a mix

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I think it's a really important thing to look at the best practice, which is still developing and is still very new, and to look at it in terms of what the private sector is doing. For example, Facebook has many more employees in trying to monitor its own activities. For Twitter,

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thinking about foreign influence comes through many different mechanisms. Some of that is really the provisions that are going to be here on things like campaign spending and making sure there are regulations on third parties, if money is being challenged through third parties. I

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you. Those are three different issues. Electoral reform is an incredibly difficult process and cannot be implemented anyway in the time you have before 2019. That's an issue I wanted to peg for future debate in Parliament and to think it through. Participation is a very lo

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for the invitation. First, I very much welcome the legislation. I think trying to modernize electoral administration, expand participation, and regulate third parties is really critical for any sort of electoral integrity. I speak als

Electoral Reform committee  You'll obviously want to have a plurality of views, so you don't want to have the authorities, as it were, producing “the” information, but Elections Canada with Marc Mayrand, in my view, would be an appropriate, impartial, independent body that could represent and give out infor

Electoral Reform committee  You would obviously want some sort of level playing field to make sure there's a balance of views and that it's not one sided. That's a complicated issue. We're getting better at regulating party funding on a fair basis with public funding, but when it comes to allocating it for

Electoral Reform committee  I think that's absolutely right. We get different types of traditions. If you take, for example, Norway, the parties there have always been very democratic, very decentralized, with an organization in which it's the local party that nominates. They nominate to the regional party,

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, it is often the case. What happens is that when you have a list system, there's a natural tendency to select a broad range reflecting society in general, because you don't want to exclude any group, as that would be to your electoral disadvantage as a party. So there's an in

Electoral Reform committee  For me the issue here is really more about the federal solutions rather than the electoral solutions. Earlier, as we've said, there isn't one solution or one set of institutions that is appropriate for democracy or for the challenges of Canadian democracy, so one needs to think

Electoral Reform committee  Who would you like to respond?

Electoral Reform committee  The grid is the best way to think about this, that you're trying to achieve different things and that there's no consensus about what the problems are—and don't think, what's the range of solutions that we can have for any of those? Just as you said for turnout, compulsory voting

Electoral Reform committee  It all depends on the details. STV is one, but I can give you a block quote and I can give you 10 other varieties of voting that we can use beyond STV. STV is a form of PR for me. It's just...small constituencies and a particular way of voting.

Electoral Reform committee  I will send it, absolutely.