Electoral reform continues to be Trudeau’s curse

No one can even say for certain whether the appointment of a new minister of Democratic Institutions earlier this month was meant to restore some momentum to the file or to recruit fresh hands to bury it.

Chances are Karina Gould, right, pictured Jan. 10 at the cabinet shuffle, does not know herself or at least she did not at the time of her appointment. On the heels of her accession to cabinet, the rookie minister refused to repeat Trudeau’s promise that the 2015 election would be the last to be held under the first-past-the-post system.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY CHANTAL HÉBERT

January 30, 2017

MONTREAL—With every new development on the electoral-reform front, the disconnect between Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s words on the promised introduction of a new voting system and his government’s actions is more glaring. Such was again the case as the government reported on the public re...

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