Maryam Monsef, formerly the minister in charge of electoral reform, which was controversially shelved after consulations and a committee report. Essentially, Trudeau and his new democratic reform minister, Karina Gould, have said these exercises were a failure, at least in terms of giving guidance for how the government should proceed. Article Continued Below“There is no consensus among Canadians on how, or even whether, to reform our electoral system,” Trudeau told the Commons on Feb. 1. The eventual legislation, introduced last April, was at odds with the committee report — so much so that one of the committee chairs, MP Rob Oliphant, couldn’t vote for the bill on first reading. The timeline had a big hole in it — what one academic called the “black box” between the committee report and the introduction of the actual law.

Source: thestar February 10, 2017 16:52 UTC