Ms Monsef's insistence that there is no consensus on proportional representation flies in the face of the submissions and presentations to the ERRE, and in the face of the commentaries at the many town halls and open mics.  People who are interested in seeing Canada's democracy survive and thrive clearly and overwhelmingly see PR as the way forward.   Her inability to see the consensus is willful.

If Mr Trudeau was serious about electoral reform, he would have appointed as minister one of his many MPs with a real commitment to and interest in electoral reform.  Sunny ways, indeed.  The minute I heard that the Liberals had received a false majority on 19 October 2015, I got that sinking here-we-go-again feeling.  A Liberal government without an effective oppostion that can vote it down is a government that cannot be trusted to keep its word.

Shame on Mr Trudeau, Ms Monsef, and the Liberals if they do not honour their promise for electoral reform.