Electoral Reform committee  My answer is 10.

Electoral Reform committee  Zero.

Electoral Reform committee  Zero, because they should do so freely, without being pressured.

Electoral Reform committee  I support it.

Electoral Reform committee  I would say yes.

Electoral Reform committee  A lot of effort has been made to preserve local representation in the system I'm proposing. Even with regional seats, those members would have a strong link to the local community. I think 338 seats is enough, especially since some MPs don't get a chance as it is to have their p

Electoral Reform committee  I would say 10. During my last year of school, I took part in a program for two hours a week. I learned about the voting system and the formulas used to determine the party that would form the government and the party that would form the opposition. Of course, I would like every

Electoral Reform committee  A machine-readable ballot, yes, I would recommend that. We have that in New Brunswick. We had that for municipal elections. I moved to New Brunswick in 2005, so I don't know what kind of ballot they voted with in 2004. But in 2008 and 2012, they had machine-readable ballots. In

Electoral Reform committee  To make it even easier, let me just call it STV, single transferable vote, with local designations. They have different candidates. Some of them are from your local area, and they are marked as such. There is a guarantee that at least one of them gets elected. That will make it m

Electoral Reform committee  Each candidate is listed only once on the ballot. The local candidates are marked as being local candidates. Actually, when I submitted the brief and also when I gave the speaking notes to the administration, it included a graphic presentation of how the ballot would look.

Electoral Reform committee  Well, the way it works is that all the candidates are listed on a ballot.

Electoral Reform committee  You can see that they are grouped by their party affiliations. The local ones are at the top in the highlighted area. You have a choice. You rank them by your order of preference. You rank them the way you want, but obviously some would choose a local one. Some would choose a reg

Electoral Reform committee  No. There will be no runoff election. But the way the preferential vote counts, it's practically an instant runoff.

Electoral Reform committee  The reason I ranked 18 was just to show how the ranking can go. You don't have to rank everybody from the same party. You don't have to go consecutively, one, two, three, four, five. You don't have to rank the local one as your first choice, and so forth.

Electoral Reform committee  There are a variety of descriptions. We'll have about a dozen different regions ranging from six seats all the way up north to as many as 14 or 15 seats in Toronto. Again, there will be, obviously, probably eight or nine local candidates in each such urban region. As I mentioned