Electoral Reform committee  Our questions asked this: “if the system was secure”. By the way, there are obviously serious questions that many experts have raised. In an era of WikiLeaks and pervasive hacking, we know that this is not a walk in the park, but I would stress that all of these problems are bein

Electoral Reform committee  What I think the public is saying in our surveys is that they feel a voting system that produced an equal impact from all votes would be one with which they would feel considerably more comfortable. But I do believe that the research that we've been doing over the years suggests

Electoral Reform committee  No, they're not. As I said, Canadians tell us, to the tune of 51%, that they think we have the best democracy in the world. So it's not like they're saying to throw everything out, holus-bolus. On the other hand, though, they do say there are some parts of this that they really d

Electoral Reform committee  Since I've already walked through the example of the difference between the more reflected and the top-of-mind approach, the simpler approach that we use, I would point out that we did do a random controlled assignment experiment, where half the respondents actually received one

Electoral Reform committee  That's an excellent question, and I can walk you through, if you want, how we presented the questions. We presented them in a couple of different ways. Our experience is that the public's level of fluency about these types of issues is relatively low. They are interested, but th

Electoral Reform committee  There were 1,600.

Electoral Reform committee  One of the questions was a pretty simple one: under Canada's first-past-the-post system, Canada is divided into 338 ridings and in every riding the candidate who wins the most votes wins the right to represent their riding in the House of Commons, regardless of whether they have

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  I think they separate the issue of, were you more satisfied with the results of this election than the last election, and there has been a bump up in trust levels, but I don't believe it is dealing with some of the fundamental, structural issues that plague democracy. For examp

Electoral Reform committee  They said they placed fairness and equality as some of the dominant principles they would like for rethinking the electoral system.

Electoral Reform committee  Correct.

Electoral Reform committee  Yes.

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much. I am honoured to be here to talk about what I think is an extremely important topic. I am going to present only a tiny fraction of the material today, because I have just updated 36 variables on this question, which I understand would give me about 18 second

Transport committee  Thanks, Mr. Chair.

Transport committee  First, I agree completely with your comments that the public has lots of wants, but when you get down to trading them off, you have to be very mindful of the fact that some of those are contradictory and we can't satisfy all of them. By the way, I would not recommend nor would t