House spent more than $600,000 and 200 hours on Electoral Reform Committee report, then the Liberals dismissed it

All House committees spent $3.26-million in 2016-17, more than double the $1.49-million recorded in 2012-13, the next largest total of the past five years.

Special House Committee on Electoral Reform members, from left, Conservative MP Scott Reid, Liberal MP Francis Scarpaleggia, and NDP MP Nathan Cullen. New statistics show the committee cost taxpayers more than $600,000. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY MARCO VIGLIOTTI

June 28, 2017

Parliamentarians spent more than $600,000 and 200-plus hours compiling a 333-page report recommending major changes to the country's voting system that was largely rejected by the Trudeau government within hours of its release, new House of Commons statistics show. The Special Committee on Elector...

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