Electoral Reform committee  In the latter part of what we did in 2005, our commission could see that some traction was being gained at least in terms of the interests. It may not have shown up at the polling station, and I think there are a couple of reasons why perhaps that didn't occur.

Electoral Reform committee  Exactly.

Electoral Reform committee  When those questions were raised around our commission table, we always came back to answering them with what would happen if this were a provincial election. It's voting day. People have the opportunity to come out and vote. The numbers that show up are the numbers that show up.

Electoral Reform committee  If I may, I'd like to answer that first. Mr. Brown has already alluded to a number of the obstacles that perhaps seemed to be in place during the time of the 2005 plebiscite. We were.... This is the first time I'll say publicly what I said into my coffee cup a number of times

Electoral Reform committee  A polling station issue occurred with that plebiscite in that the number of polling stations in the province were dramatically reduced. Folks no longer went to where they thought they were going. It did create some frustration. The other thing that surfaced partway through our ed

Electoral Reform committee  Well, it could result in a minority situation. If the list people were just cut out of it altogether, then they might indeed have a majority standing. We began to get undermined by the very folks who put us in place. I don't quite know how to back that up, but I do know it was

Electoral Reform committee  We engaged a public relations firm to help us with the design of some of the materials.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, there certainly were “yes” groups and “no” groups who were on their own, putting information forward to the general public and to our commission as well.

Electoral Reform committee  Do you mean the spending limits of other people?

Electoral Reform committee  There were no limits put on it, except the limit that was put on us by a reasonably small budget. We came close to staying within it.

Electoral Reform committee  The members of our commission spent their in-house time trying to develop some approaches that ensured information was provided to the general public. It ranged from trying to get a TV spot during the hockey game on a Saturday night, to ensuring that there were materials delivere

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much. I need to say first that my wife thanks you for getting me out of the house.

Electoral Reform committee  It has been 11 years since I chaired the electoral reform commission. It took some scratching and digging to try to bring forward some memories so that I could sit next to someone who is working on something currently. Let me give you a little background. The electoral future co