Feds aim to get electoral reform bill tabled by May, despite ‘incredibly cynical’ response to committee report

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says the Special House Electoral Reform Committee’s report seems to have been pushed to the wayside.

The now-disbanded Special House Committee on Electoral Reform presented a majority report Dec. 1. But with talk now focused on the minister's disparaging comments and the government's much-mocked Mydemocracy.ca online survey, Green Party leader Elizabeth May, second from right, says the committee's work is being ignored. Bloc MP Luc Thériault, left, Conservative MP Scott Reid, Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia, NDP MP Nathan Cullen, Ms. May and press gallery moderator Elizabeth Thompson. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

December 12, 2016

PARLIAMENT HILL—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is still “working towards” tabling legislation to change Canada’s federal voting system by May next year, Liberal MP Mark Holland, parliamentary secretary to the Democratic Institutions minister, told The Hill Times last w...

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