This is what comes of promising far more than you can deliver It’s official: electoral reform is dead. In a mandate letter sent to Karina Gould, the newly-minted minister of Democratic Institutions, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote: “There has been tremendous work by the House of Commons Special Committee on Electoral Reform, outreach by...
READ MORE The Liberals can’t get the option they want. Expect them to pull the plug. Electoral reform, we hardly knew ye. As the fall session of Parliament slouches toward Christmas break, it appears that one of the Liberals’ more ambitious campaign promises — that the 2015 election would be the last held under the first-past-the-post...
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The referendum pitch gives the PM what he needs most: an excuse to drop the whole thing A referendum if necessary, but not necessarily a referendum. That seems to sum up the NDP’s latest position on electoral reform, advanced this week by the party’s reform critic, Nathan Cullen. While the party previously was lukewarm,...
READ MORE He could win it. At the very least, he could paint the Conservatives into a corner. The people have spoken — and they’ve said they want to speak some more. According to the latest Forum Research poll, 65 per cent of Canadians want the federal government to hold a referendum on whatever preferred voting...
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“We deserve broad, representative politics, a stable government and an opportunity to shape our democracy,” said Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef this week, when she announced the government’s all-party committee on electoral reform. The committee is charged with finding an alternative to the first-past-the-post electoral system, which Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to scrap...
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Broadbent Institute’s lively and highly-anticipated debate, moderated by Evan Solomon, took place on April 2, 2016, as part of The Progress Summit 2016. On the Yes Side: Andrew Coyne, Columnist, Postmedia News Alex Himelfarb, former Clerk of the Privy Council On the No Side: Michelle Rempel, Official Opposition Critic, Immigration, and MP, Calgary Nose...
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