“A massive political deception” is how NDP leader Tom Mulcair, portrayed the Liberal government’s abandonment of electoral reform. A special committee of MPs that studied electoral reform recommended a referendum, pitting the current system against an unspecified form of proportional representation. Opposition members who spent much of their summer crisscrossing Canada gauging opinion on electoral reform were incandescent. “Changing the electoral system will not be in your mandate,” the letter said. But for those who voted for Trudeau as an antidote to political cynicism — and in the hope that he would overturn what they consider an unjust electoral system — it is nothing short of a betrayal.

Source: National Post February 01, 2017 23:33 UTC