Discontent with FPTP is mainly a manufactured discontent, advanced by the players in the system, rather than the voters themselves. The clamour for electoral reform is far less loud and vigorous than professional politicians and their many-handed managers would like you to believe. Changing the Commons committee is their version of Anything But A Referendum on electoral reform. Justin Trudeau says that referendums are not a good way to get electoral reform. It is surely not the “undemocratic,” “unrepresentative” and “unfair” system that those with a partisan interest in “fixing” it claim.

Source: National Post June 03, 2016 19:52 UTC