Electoral Reform committee  A few years ago, when we had the parliamentary commission on the draft bill in Quebec, it would have been good if the minister appointed to hold the fort actually had held it. In other words, if someone does not stand up for the change they themselves are proposing, there is goin

Electoral Reform committee  Let’s hear the voice of experience first.

Electoral Reform committee  I was a member of the National Assembly for 25 years, in the same system as the current one. I was a parliamentarian and a representative of the people at the same time. If I had been in a situation of pure proportionality, for example, I would have been a member representing his

Electoral Reform committee  Mr. Chair, ladies and gentlemen of the commission, good afternoon. You will have to excuse my language, but I spent 25 years in the National Assembly where we call a committee a commission parlementaire. I am happy to be here with Mr. Broadbent today. I do not know if he remembe

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much. Mr. Chair, you have seen me on television but now you are seeing me in person. I hope that you are not too disappointed.