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Will Trudeau end up regretting his decision to walk away from electoral reform? (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 9 months ago by grte@lemmy.ca to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

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[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think you and I may have discussed this in the past but it's my opinion that the reason the liberals were in a minority in the committee is because they didn't want electoral reform. They should have just said heres a binding referendum on how the next election will be held.

[–] Sir_Osis_of_Liver@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

They knew that if they didn't get buy-in from the other parties, the next time say the CPC government got in, they were going to go back to FPTP. Now they were very unlikely to get the CPC on board, but having the NDP and Bloc would have made it more politically difficult for the CPC to roll back changes.

The CPC and Bloc were absolutely going to run on any change being a Liberal power grab. Being a minority on the committee helped defuse that argument.

Any sort of referendum was going to fail. It was the CPC's poison pill. All of the parties were running internal polls telling them the same thing.