Electoral Reform committee  I guess this is my closing statement. I believe that it's really, really important that you seek to empower voters, not political parties. That is fundamental. From all of my experience—and I've been at this for a long time, as both a practitioner and an academic, and as an act

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much for the question. The point is that under that proposal the distortions would have halved at least. You wouldn't have these huge distortions. Getting back to what has dominated the discussion, namely process, I think it was Mr. Cullen who started that by ask

Electoral Reform committee  It was $3 million, not $10 million.

Electoral Reform committee  Thank you very much for the question. Different types of elections? No. Both use a ranked preference system, whether you're rural or urban. I don't see any difference. You don't end up with two different types of MPs. You don't have a different voting system. The quota by which

Electoral Reform committee  I'll leave it at that. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.

Electoral Reform committee  Mr. Chair, members of the committee, we all know Sir Sandford Fleming for giving us the 24-hour clock, but he was also a student of Parliament. He gave an address 125 years ago in Ottawa on the rectification of Parliament. Fleming saw two problems: one, the makeup of the House w