[bradbeattie]

Is it any wonder then that the Liberals dragged their heels on the 2015 campaign promise of electoral reform?

As part of the process, the parliamentary committee released a survey asking questions like

  * Independent candidates should be able to be elected to Parliament
  * The current electoral system adequately reflects voters' intentions
  * Seats should be allocated in proportion to the percentage of votes received by each political party
  * Voters should elect local candidates to represent them in Parliament
  * The current electoral system should be changed

When the committee concluded with https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/421/ERRE/Reports..., recommending that Canada adopt proportional representation, the Liberal Party responds with their own survey, asking questions like

  * There should be parties in Parliament that represent the views of all Canadians, even if some are radical or extreme.
  * Governments should have to negotiate their policy decisions with other parties in Parliament, even if it is less clear who is accountable for the resulting policy.
  * It is better for several parties to have to govern together than for one party to make all the decisions in government, even if it takes longer for government to get things done.

Yeah...