New minister could signal step away from scrapping first past the post: strategist

Conservative MP Scott Reid says rookie Gould wasn't likely selected to 'radically change the agenda' on electoral reform.

Rookie Liberal MP Karina Gould, pictured centre alongside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Governor General David Johnston, was appointed last week as the new democratic institutions minister, where she'll be tasked with delivering on Mr. Trudeau's campaign pledge to make 2015 the last election conducted under first-past-the-post. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

January 18, 2017

The Trudeau government may be signalling that it’s beginning to pivot away from its campaign pledge to make 2015 the last election conducted under the first-past-the-post system by appointing rookie MP Karina Gould as the new minister of democratic institutions, according to pundit Tim Powers. Mr...

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