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Trudeau government abandons promise of electoral reform
Trudeau government abandons promise of electoral reform
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 says "changing the electoral system will not be in your mandate."
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"Well it worked this time!" said the party in power, committing to doing nothing rather than risk losing seats.
(To be fair, not an easy reform to figure out, but to be extra fair, the fact that they had no real proposals for change probably had something to do with people not wanting it.)
What a surprise, said no-one.