P.E.I. case shows referendums not ‘decisive tool’ to gauge opinion on electoral reform: Cullen

Conservative MP Scott Reid says the P.E.I. plebiscite results undermine the PM's argument.

NDP electoral reform critic Nathan Cullen hailed the results of a referendum on voting systems in P.E.I. last week as 'historic,' though pointed to a subsequent debate about turnout as evidence that these sorts of votes can be skewed to advance competing narratives.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

November 16, 2016

NDP MP Nathan Cullen says the results of last week's plebiscite in Prince Edward Island on electoral reform show that referendums are not the decisive tool for determining the mood of the public that the federal Conservatives would like to believe, despite proportional representation, which the NDP...

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