No one has ever come forth with any information as to where the whole idea of electoral reform sprang from. Platforms for parties evolve with consultation and certainly the Liberal party is part of that consultation. Was everyone in on it, or was it just Trudeau, and if so how and why did they let him run with it ? Early on after it was announced, and Trudeau made it clear that he favoured ranked ballots , which favoured the Liberal Party, the whole process became suspect. No one who follows politics, believed for one moment that the Liberals were going to abandon their many decades of running the country to share power with the NDP and Greens in coalition governments. Had Trudeau simply spoke without thinking something through as has become common ? Did his advisors think they could sneak something through on the Canadian public and no one would notice ? Now that it is gone we will never know, but it has to rank as one of the strangest promises from the Liberal party.