Electoral Reform committee  Would you like me to go first? Think about the Bundestag. Here we have two MPs who are elected through different methods. One is in the single-member district and one is the person who is elected in the party list. There isn't a lot of ambiguity in the sense that there is still

Electoral Reform committee  Diversity is really critical, particularly because societies now are increasingly globalized, and émigré populations need to have citizenship rights and voices in representative bodies like Parliament. A couple of things can be done. Clearly, if you go towards a mixed member or

Electoral Reform committee  It's a change of voting system. We can see the same in Germany and in other countries that have mixed member systems. It's far more difficult for women and other minorities to get elected under first past the post in single-member districts than it is under the party list. In s

Electoral Reform committee  You can also use quotas, obviously.

Electoral Reform committee  I just thought the system they used for the electoral reform was better than the system they used for the flag, which, of course, got voted down again, cost a lot, and didn't actually get through. The first system worked, with a longer period between the first and the second of t

Electoral Reform committee  Strategic voting can be seen as a problem, but it can also be seen as a virtue for other reasons. Think about, for example, the second ballot system, which is used in France. That's a majoritarian system, and it's designed to create large parties. In the first ballot, in France

Electoral Reform committee  I think that's a very good question, thinking about the process. I think that we can contrast New Zealand and the U.K. We know about Brexit, but we also know about the vote that they had on the alternative vote system. Those referendums, I think, were a problem in lots of differe

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much, Chair. I really appreciate the opportunity to talk again with the Canadian Parliament about this really important topic. There are really three issues that I think are worth highlighting. Number one, what are the key options on the table? Those are partl