Liberals have no one else to blame for bungled electoral reform

Karina Gould's skills could be employed elsewhere, and some taxpayer dollars saved, by shelving a ministry that has nothing really to do.

NDP MP Nathan Cullen, his party's electoral reform critic, has blasted the government for breaking its promise to change Canada's electoral system, recently calling Prime Minister Justin Trudeau a 'liar.' The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY TIM POWERS

February 8, 2017

It is hard for me to start foaming at the mouth over Justin Trudeau's broken promise on electoral reform. I never actually believed that 2015 was going to be the last election under the first past post system. The prime minister's lofty rhetoric at the time, declaring change, was only thing that go...

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