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They may not see eye-to-eye on changing how Canadians elect their MPs, but three opposition members of the all-party committee tasked with investigating alternative voting systems are calling on the government to pay for “visual aids” to show voters what a post-first-past-the-post Canada might look like.

“Our committee is at a turning point, where we are moving away from the corridors of Parliament into communities across Canada,” notes a letter sent Wednesday to Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef by Conservative MP Scott Reid, New Democrat Nathan Cullen and Green Party Leader Elizabeth May.

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(The Bloc Quebecois have also been invited to sign on, but haven’t yet responded to the offer.)

“At this juncture, our work will turn from the abstract to the concrete,” it continues.

“Canadians will want to know how the various proposals for electoral reform would work and what they would look like in practice.”