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Even as various ministers, committees and MPs have been criss-crossing the country, surveying citizens on the pros and cons of changing the way we elect our MPs, outgoing chief electoral officer Marc Mayrand has been quietly putting together his own list of suggested fixes and enhancements to the current voting regime.

The resulting report –“An Electoral Framework for the 21st Century: Recommendations from the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada Following the 42nd General Election,” to use its full title – was tabled in the House on Tuesday, and given Mayrand’s stated intention of stepping down at the end of the year, it could well turn out to be his final dispatch from the front-lines of our federal democracy.

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While it’s well worth perusing the full document when/if you have time, here’s a quick overview of the chief electoral officer’s most (seemingly) commonsensical recommendations, several of which, it’s worth noting, can also be found in Team Trudeau’s 2015 campaign platform, but have thus far failed to materialize in the House in legislative form: