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By confessing his government was starting to look like its predecessor, Justin Trudeau did a clever step down from his party position on democratic reform.
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There are two main families of voting systems in the world: proportional and plurality/majoritiarian.
The latter category is commonly referred to as "winner-take-all" and designed to manufacture a single-party majority government.
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As the Liberal government begins to move forward on its election promise to change the way Canada votes, advocacy groups and non-profit organizations that have been tackling the issue of electoral reform long before the Liberals were sworn in last fall are ramping up their campaigns.
"We have a historic opportunity at the national level for voting reform," Jamie Biggar, Campaigns Director at Leadnow told rabble.
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The voting reform debate in Canada is full of statements like these:
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The most memorable moment of the 2015 federal election may be the release of a surveillance video capturing a candidate urinating into a stranger's coffee cup.
That episode comes to mind, oddly, as I think of what I learned during my recent two-year foray into electoral politics.
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During his election campaign and at his Throne Speech, Justin Trudeau promised to make every vote count. However, lately on the news of electoral reform it has been crickets.
So what did Trudeau mean when he said "make every vote count": proportional representation, mixed-member proportional representation or ranked ballots?
The Liberals seem to love the last option, which could be a recipe for disaster.
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