Electoral Reform committee  I don't think we've asked about that, but we could easily rectify that.

Electoral Reform committee  No. I think it's fair to say, though, that compared to a year ago—how to say this—the poll rating of the current Prime Minister is much higher than that of the previous prime minister by far. There is some feeling that people are happier with their government, and it's reflecte

Electoral Reform committee  Anecdotally, qualitatively, we saw a populist mayor in the Toronto mayoral election five or six years ago, so I think there is an interest in the 1% versus the 99%, populism, accountability, the average guy getting his say, and so forth. We're seeing that now in the U.S. It's t

Electoral Reform committee  No, they had to click one of the three options we gave them. They couldn't say, “the current system”. They would have to recognize what the current system is, and maybe they don't know what it is. Just remember, though, on the knowledge thing, that there's no knowledge test to v

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, those are descriptions we used.

Electoral Reform committee  I'm going to respond in English. The public generally is in favour of referendums. They like the idea because the idea is that they're going to be consulted on something directly. We did a poll a month ago and found that 65% favour a referendum. That's not a surprise. People ten

Electoral Reform committee  I think they will be able to answer in a more educated manner whether or not they're in favour of this system, or to say if it's the new system versus the old system.

Electoral Reform committee  We need to really think about the complexity of some of these ideas. In the other testimony today, some of those systems sound extremely complicated to me. We may have the simplest system right now, and people are unaware of a lot of the details of that. I made opening comments a

Electoral Reform committee  Good morning. I'm Lorne Bozinoff, president and founder of Forum Research, the publisher of the Forum Poll. Forum Research does more media polls in Canada than all other polling companies combined. We feel that public opinion research can be called the pulse of democracy. Wit