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Music I want to start by acknowledging with gratitude I stand here on the traditional unceded territory of in la scream Squamish and slay with his presentation amid all the fun exciting and emotional talks you're going to hear today I get to tell you about voting systems how they work how they sometimes don't work the perennial Canadian problem of electoral dysfunction there someday will be a drug in the meantime we have it in our hands to fix our broken voting system but first we need to understand it so one of the things I want to share with you is that it's really easy to vote using almost any voting system you can think of but people who use that voting system often find it hard to explain the system they're used to I discovered this when I was on the special parliamentary committee on electoral reform and forum research came to us to tell us that they had polled Canadians to find out if we even knew the name of the system we're using now they made it easy they actually created a multiple choice list and went out to find out could Canadians pick from a list you know you've got to let your preferential voting proportion representation or first-past-the-post I was actually quite surprised to find that most Canadians couldn't properly name the system we're using from a multiple choice question only 40 percent could and 40 percent saw that it was first-past-the-post also probably couldn't explain how it worked exactly because any voting system can be complicated to explain even if it's easy to use for instance I hear news media people all the time during an election talking about the campaign to elect a new prime minister news flash to news media...