Electoral Reform committee  Thanks very much. I'll get right to it. One of the things I'm interested in is the effectiveness of government and how government can make decisions. One of the criticisms that people have of PR systems is that it's more complex, that it takes too long to make decisions. Yet that doesn't bear out in fact.

Electoral Reform committee  I would just ask you to look back to 1991 and 1997, where you'll find two Globe and Mail editorials supporting the move towards proportional representation.