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Electoral Reform committee  Measures have to be taken to achieve that. Which ones? I do not know. However, we must encourage citizen participation and diversity.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  I understand it may be difficult to establish an equal list for each of the parties. We could set ratios, a minimum, for example, that might be between 45% and 55%. When you have three candidates on a list, it is hard to get half of them. So we could establish a margin that would

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  About the representation of women.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  The problem is that, even if some women run, they will not necessarily be elected. However, they do not constitute half of the candidates from all parties. If that were the case, that would be progress.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  The formula I am proposing does not support that. What I am recommending is that, regardless of the formula proposed, arrangements be made so that women are also represented. I also include in that regard all persons with disabilities because they feel excluded and represent a s

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  I think that pure proportional representation, with various ways of calculating and preserving the connection with a district, if possible, will change the entire dynamic of public participation. The reason is that we will have multipartite governance and all voters will be able

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  It risks creating a system of apparatchiks, power and collusion that ends up favouring friends or the group. The MP becomes accountable to the party. If the MP was designated because he is a list member, his allegiance or accountability will tend to be toward the party. The part

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  Today we may regret that the social fabric and civil society in both Quebec and Canada have crumbled because Quebec community organizations and many institutions of civil society have lost their ability to support the public participation. I am trying to determine why people tak

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  I don't think it would increase strategic voting. However, the voters' problem is that they have to boil their decision down to a single x, which has to represent the party, the MP and the prime minister. So there is a decrease that means that, obviously, voters wonder what is m

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, absolutely.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  If a referendum were held at the same time as the next election to ensure that the changes suggested would be in effect during future elections, it would be clear to the public that progress was being made. We are used to having discussions that keep coming back and seeing refere

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  We rejected it because the list is established by the parties. In a case like that, it is likely that MPs would be more accountable to the party than to voters. I think that's a risk.

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  This already improves the situation because they are chosen in principle by citizens, but they are still made by the parties. I think it still creates a subgroup of elected people and belong to the party. Parties currently recruit candidates, invite them to run and support them,

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  If a candidate did not have the majority but was elected—

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, that certainly could happen. Many conventions could be adopted. Thresholds could be created. For example, if someone doesn't receive a minimum of 25% of the votes, that person wouldn't be elected. With math and statistics, we can do all kinds of things. We could anticipate t

October 3rd, 2016Committee meeting

Mireille Tremblay