Electoral Reform committee  I have only one comment. Ms. May got fewer votes in her riding than the total number of votes cast for the Green Party. What about those votes?

Electoral Reform committee  I'll just add two points. Keep it as simple as you can and the second point would be—to answer your question—that if we have an arrangement where each constituency has the ability to select their candidate and so on and have it financed and so on, disconnected from the PMO and al

Electoral Reform committee  Then the second party gets its fill with what is left. Then the third party, and then the fourth party. By the time we get to the Greens, the Green vote in Canada is very diffused, but they still have voters and they still have preferences. It shouldn't be diluted through a prefe

Electoral Reform committee  All I'm saying is it's a math trick. That's what I wanted to bring to your attention, because we have a lot of things in our electoral system that work really well. It's the pride of our country. Many other countries emulate it. Let's not muck it up. Let's simply improve this rep

Electoral Reform committee  Pardon me?

Electoral Reform committee  Right, because every vote counts.

Electoral Reform committee  Right. But in the current system, in this calculation, out of the 338 seats, all of them would be placed as the first past the post system places it. There's no need to change any of it.

Electoral Reform committee  Edmonton Riverbend.

Electoral Reform committee  I was told that if you have nothing positive to say, don't say anything.

Electoral Reform committee  I made a couple of other points it would be nice to have in the reform. I wanted to bring your attention to the math or the consequences of this particular way of making a seat allocation. It would really be nice if we elected an MP from a party who didn't cross the floor three

Electoral Reform committee  I can find that for you.

Electoral Reform committee  Exactly how I did my spreadsheet in the middle of the night. In the House of Commons report it talks about the number of votes and the calculated percentage. If you simply put that into a spreadsheet and sort the percentages in declining order, and you fill the top ones first—so

Electoral Reform committee  The total vote is 40%, they get 40% of the seats. The first 40% of the seats are filled by that elected Liberal member with the highest percentage, then the second, then the third, then the fourth, down to the fortieth, right? It's mechanical. What I'm saying is the pluralities—a

Electoral Reform committee  Whatever, 13—

Electoral Reform committee  Right, those seats are filled first.