Justin Trudeau's Liberal government is abandoning a commitment to reform the federal electoral system. A new mandate letter issued to Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould, released publicly on Wednesday, says "changing the electoral system will not be in your mandate." Changing the electoral system will not be in your mandate." Gould says electoral reform is no more1:13Trudeau first committed to replacing the current first-past-the-post electoral system in June 2015, shortly before the federal election campaign. A special committee of the House of Commons was struck last June and all MPs were invited to hold town hall meetings on electoral reform.

Source: CBC News February 01, 2017 17:56 UTC