Electoral Reform committee  Most of our conversations revolve around inequality in the vote. They revolve around 39% of the population forming a majority government over and over again. Proportional representation makes sense. If you're going to get 35% of a vote, then you should have 35% of those seats. I

Electoral Reform committee  As I said in my report, we had our national convention in August of this past year where we unanimously adopted a proportional representation model to go forward with. We have various political action papers as well where we talk about proportional representation and the need to

Electoral Reform committee  Absolutely, yes. The level of engagement has increased significantly, yes.

Electoral Reform committee  Keep it as simple as possible to understand. From my understanding, and there are three different models, there are variations of each model that each country has adopted as its own. Keep it simple. For the presenter this morning, I think his model was fantastic. It's the first I

Electoral Reform committee  He clearly put a lot of work into something that...and the key is just to keep it simple. We're looking for something that we can take back, and not only to our members, because we care just as much about the community as we do about our members. We want to be able to take someth

Electoral Reform committee  The policy within Unifor is that we're not interested in a referendum, and it's my personal preference as well. It's not time for a referendum. We can start a model. We can pick a model from the committee's recommendation and we can try it out, and then we can go from there.

Electoral Reform committee  I lost my thought on that one, sorry.

Electoral Reform committee  On the education component, I'm [Technical difficulty—Editor] familiar with the Fair Elections Act, but it was amended so that we could not talk about education and we could not promote elections. I'm not sure if it's in this committee's mandate to make a change to that, so that

Electoral Reform committee  I don't think a referendum is necessary for a number of reasons. First of all, as I said in my brief, Mr. Trudeau has already said that that will be the last election under our current system. A lot of MPs have agreed with that. Also, I've submitted in my brief an article from th

Electoral Reform committee  My opinion is, no, that's not a realistic deadline. June of next year is not realistic. It could be realistic for the community to come up with a proposed model, but I don't think that in two years it's realistic to implement it. I hope that it is, because it's a long time coming

Electoral Reform committee  That is where we get into the problem of the strategic vote. Nobody likes to talk about strategic voting, but when you are in a riding where your vote simply doesn't count but you want it to go to the next candidate or party that shares most closely your values, that is the troub

Electoral Reform committee  Hi. My name is Darren Gibson. I'm the father of three girls, ages 4, 8, and 11. I live in Winnipeg in the riding of Elmwood—Transcona. I'm a union activist with a keen interest in political action and hold the elected position of Unifor political action chairperson. This work inc