The apology is in order. I can understand her frustration at taking the heat for the failed conclusions of the committee but the whole voting reform issue was doomed to fail because Opposition parties were put into a position to embarrass the government through not cooperating and demanding options that the Liberals wouldn't be in favour of. In their first month in power the Liberals should have said "Here's what we propose to do...", put it to a vote in parliament, and suffered the charges of 'unfair'. Instead, they gave the Conservatives and NDP a stick to beat them with.