First-past-the-post electoral system advances ‘democratic values,’ says rookie Democratic Institutions Minister Gould a week after Libs break campaign promise

Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould downplayed the government’s broken promise at the House Affairs Committee, but the New Democrats say the Liberals are ‘missing the irony.’

Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould, left, pictured with the Privy Council Office’s Ian McCowan, deputy secretary to cabinet on governance, at the House Affairs Committee on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017, on Parliament Hill. The Hill Times Photograph by Jake Wright

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

February 8, 2017

PARLIAMENT HILL—A week after the Trudeau government scrapped its promise to change Canada's first-past-the-post electoral system in time for the next federal election, the new Minister of Democratic Institutions Karina Gould defended the current voting system before the House Affairs Committee Tue...

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