https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2016/12/04/democracy-in-canada-takes-tw...
On Dec. 1, the Liberals on the committee appointed to study implementing that promise suggested breaking it.
The minister in charge of the reforms, Maryam Monsef, made a mockery of the committee’s work in rejecting the consensus recommendations of the other parties, holding up a formula and suggesting math is hard and the dweebs in all the other parties were trying to geek up elections too much.
This is not a good line of reasoning for a party whose prime minster likes to set up opportunities to, for example, publicly, showily, geek out on quantum theory, the better to prove his is the party of evidence and reason.
The whole performance by Monsef was mind-bogglingly stupid, and dishonest and cynical — she suggested she had expected the committee to come up with a specific proposal, when she very clearly had not asked for one in the committee’s mandate, and when, furthermore, the committee had come up with a specific proposal (holding a referendum on proportional representation), just not one her government prefers.
"the performance by [Liberal Minister] Monsef was mind-bogglingly stupid, and dishonest and cynical" --> and this in the Liberal loving Toronto Star!
Keenan goes on to say that she did apologize and claimed the Liberals still intend to fulfill their promise of electoral reform. On this Keenan observes:
And if it does deliver on it by putting forward the ranked ballot system the Liberals have long been known to prefer, instead of the proportional system the committee recommended, it will be hard to hide the manipulative motive behind what many voters hopefully embraced as a genuine democratic promise.