Electoral Reform committee  I don't know how you'll work that out, but I think we need to look at the big picture as opposed to regions. With a proportional system, we would hear a variety of voices from across the country. It doesn't matter where they come from, because the parties would have the ideology,

Electoral Reform committee  Well, I think they have to be tied to somewhere. They have to be tied to a province or a region. For me, when you look at proportional representation, it's not the fact that P.E.I. has four seats. It's about how all the popular vote is reflected in the House, and then those voic

Electoral Reform committee  For me it would be the proportionality. It would be how the seats are divided up and who actually sits in those seats. If you capture a certain amount of the popular vote, that translates into a certain number of seats. That's not what currently happens. Right now we see a really

Electoral Reform committee  How would mandatory voting affect people with disabilities?

Electoral Reform committee  I don't know that it would affect people with disabilities in any way that's different from how it would affect any other segment of society. Traditionally on P.E.I. we know that people with disabilities get out and vote. They show up to vote at a pretty high rate. We don't have

Electoral Reform committee  I would lean toward an incentive model as opposed to a punishment model, if I can use that term, or a disincentive model. I started my presentation by saying that people with disabilities represent 10% of our population, and that certainly isn't what's representative in the House

Electoral Reform committee  What you talked about in terms of your history is very much an experience that I've had in my own family. I think all Islanders are pretty much.... You can say their last name, and we think we know how you vote because of your family of origin. I come from a very political fami

Electoral Reform committee  We can talk later.

Electoral Reform committee  I don't have that type of research. I have some research around diversity in general, and certainly you can point to the New Zealand system, which is fairly new. We know the native population is now represented. The amount of people who are native in that country are now represen

Electoral Reform committee  I would strongly argue with that.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, I would.

Electoral Reform committee  I think actually that's quite a naive notion.

Electoral Reform committee  I sincerely feel that.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. I absolutely do not feel that my values, or I, were represented for the 10 years that the Conservative government was in power. I don't feel that.

Electoral Reform committee  It's particularly the environment on P.E.I. If you were the person who ran against the person who was elected, and then you had an issue that you wanted to bring forward to them, that creates a whole other dynamic.