Toronto's Raging Grannies kick off a protest over the Liberal government's retreat from electoral reform at Nathan Phillips Square. In Toronto, a few hundred protesters gathered at Nathan Phillips Square to denounce what many called a cynical, underhanded move. “He made all these promises to get elected,” Creighton said, referencing not just electoral reform but Trudeau’s other promises like the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People. The move was called a “betrayal” by the opposition New Democrats, who accused Trudeau of lying to progressive voters when he made electoral reform a central promise in the 2015 election. After electoral reform was taken off the table earlier this month, Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould said it was because no clear consensus had arisen over what to replace it with.

Source: thestar February 11, 2017 19:55 UTC