Poll finds support for PM Trudeau’s preferred electoral system—if it means winner elected with majority support

More than half of respondents to the Forum Research survey also said they supported online voting and mandatory voting.
Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef and Isabelle Mondou, assistant secretary to the cabinet and counsel to the Clerk of the Privy Council, prepare to testify to the House Electoral Reform Committee in July. Ms. Monsef is handling the government's review of Canada's electoral system.
A new public opinion poll indicates the ranked-ballot electoral system Prime Minister Justin Trudeau favours to replace Canada’s so-called first-past-the-post system of electing federal governments has the approval of only a third of Canadians—until they are told that under the system "the winni...

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