Procedure and House Affairs committee  Which these days might be politically incorrect to say.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Not very well.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  If you take all democracies.... I haven't received very recent numbers, and perhaps they're better, but when I was researching this, we were down at the bottom, not quite as bad as the Americans, but certainly not nearly as good as the Europeans, the British, and the Australians.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Right. It's not that easy to do testing where, since institutions are different, you have to give a certain amount of leeway. Overall, among countries—as I said, all democracies—it's clear that Americans are lower in terms of basic political knowledge. What percentage of the peop

Procedure and House Affairs committee  Yes, but not immediately.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It's not the only factor, but it could have a positive effect. I have made that argument, and I still make that argument. It's one of the arguments I've made in Quebec.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  We'll see. If I could just add, I think you're going to find the result in Ontario will, in fact, be an impetus for electoral reform. I think very strongly.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I remember you, yes.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It won't be in time for next week, no, that's for sure.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I don't know the legal process. As far as I know, it would make no sense. If the court, in fact, throws out the Fair Elections Act, which personally I don't think that the constitutional argument is that strong.... I think it was a bad law, but the argument that it's unconstituti

Procedure and House Affairs committee  In the United States, I would make that as a clear statement. There have been real efforts to do just that.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  At least at the local level we've seen that. I don't want to make an accusation at the national level.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  I've been at this for a long time.

Procedure and House Affairs committee  It depends on which laws you consider procedural laws and so on.