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Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee The votes are transferred because of the quota. The first step is to determine the quota, but it is not necessary to get more than the quota. If nobody receives more votes than the required number, the idea is to avoid an unused vote. Maybe I'll try to explain it in English.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee The idea is to try to avoid wasted votes. There are a lot of complaints that the “first past the post” system doesn't function well because there are a lot of wasted votes.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee If you just want to vote for number one and nobody else, you can certainly do that. So you just mark the one.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee The rationale is that if you're a voter and you vote for number one, number two, and number three, obviously that indicates that you have preferences other than number one, in the first instance. There's someone else you would like to see selected. You'd like to see this person s
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee Essentially, yes.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee Maybe before I answer that directly, I would say that we looked closely at the Australian situation when we were designing this bill, because we thought it was very instructive of the way a system could work. They are on the Westminster system. Their traditions are very similar t
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee The Australians use what's called the Robson rotation for the way the candidates' names appear on the ballot. We use a similar provision, but it's slightly different in its construction. The provision suggested in the bill is that the candidates' names be rotated. That's because
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee Indeed, but if we're talking about spending limits—one needs to consider all the spending limits—at least from my perspective, it seems difficult to contemplate that you would have a more restrictive spending limit for a province-wide campaign than you would for the campaign of a
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee There is no stale date on the list, no.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee That's correct.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee It's very similar to the system that was proposed in B.C., yes.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee It's essentially that, yes. It follows the same rules, so the process that's set out in the bill for the rules that are followed in the process is the same. Going back to your previous comment--the practicality of contribution limits and what it means--here the practicality of t
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee Indeed. Sorry, I meant one vacancy. There's no transfer of surplus, because obviously once someone attains the quota, they become the person who is the successful candidate. When there's only one candidate, obviously when you determine the quota, the formula means that the quota
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee Officially, they become places that are open when senators resign, for example, or when they attain the age of 75, or when they leave for the other reason: some people die before the age of 75. What's provided for in the bill is that the Prime Minister...obviously for the ones th
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall
Bill C-20 (39th Parliament, 2nd Session) committee The selection process for any of the provinces is province wide.
April 2nd, 2008Committee meeting
Dan McDougall