Electoral Reform committee  In our current system, we know from previous examples where there's been talk of developing coalition governments that it hasn't been received favourably. They have been fairly unpopular. At the federal level, most recently, when Mr. Dion was trying to put together a coalition go

Electoral Reform committee  We don't have exclusive data. I can't recall if we polled specifically on desire for electoral reform leading up to the federal election. That's something we can go back to. We definitely polled extensively prior to the last federal election. Lorne, do you recall if that was a

Electoral Reform committee  We would have to compare. That's something of interest. We would have to look at doing a time series analysis of some of our polls. That's not something that we had done in preparation for this; however, as you have pointed out, awareness of your committee has grown over the past

Electoral Reform committee  That's something we could check and then get back to you on. As I said, we've done several surveys on this and we're going to continue polling this issue. We poll federally every single month, so in the next release we'll add some time series analysis. We'll do some trending char

Electoral Reform committee  No. We haven't gone into too much detail in the surveys on describing how our current system works. Language is important. When the committee makes its decision, and if the government decides to move forward, whether it's through a referendum or through other means, you're going

Electoral Reform committee  About half of Canadians were aware this committee existed.

Electoral Reform committee  We asked if individuals could describe the different systems, and that's where PR came out on top with 63%, indicating that they felt comfortable describing what that type of system was, followed by first past the post at 54%. Then we asked which electoral system was best for Can

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. The first section we talked about was describing these systems and then which system Canada had. That was unprompted. There were no descriptions on what these systems are. We were just trying to get a perception of knowledge on these. When we went into preference on these sy

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. I don't have the full table in front of me right now, but the economy was the highest across the board. The average score was eight out of nine. Electoral reform fell somewhere in the middle. The other ones were—these are averages right now—climate change at 6.8; relations w

Electoral Reform committee  Yes. We didn't ask which system Canada should change to. We asked, in their view, which system is best for Canada? When we phrased the question that way, first past the post is the most popular, with 42%; proportional representation follows, at 35%; and as I said, ranked ballot,

Electoral Reform committee  Yes, I believe they have. If not, then they will be this evening.

Electoral Reform committee  That wasn't included in the most recent poll, no.

Electoral Reform committee  There are some nuances in different elements of this topic. For example, we asked a series of important issue questions on the most recent poll. Electoral reform was on there. The economy was on there, and marijuana legalization and a few others. There were some nuances in terms

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you, everyone, for hosting us today. My name is Mr. William Schatten. I'm from Forum Research. I'm a research director. As you are aware, Forum has done several surveys on the topic of electoral reform. Most recently, we conducted one across Canada. It was in field from O