The promise of electoral reform was the single most important promise made by the Liberal party in the last federal election. If they do not intend to honour this commitment, then I think it is up to the Liberals to explain why they think it is reasonable to maintain a dysfunctional and perverse electoral system that hands 100% of the power to a party than gets the support of just 24% of the electorate (or 39% of votes cast), and which devalues most votes and while overvaluing a small number of votes in swing ridings. Most Canadians are effectively disenfranchised by first-past-the-post, and there is in practice little point in voting for most of us - which is one of the reasons that fewer and fewer of us are voting. FPTP is a perverse relic of the British Empire that is well past its best-before date; it is time that Canada joins the vast majority of parliamentary democracies and brings in a proportional system in which all votes, and voters, matter equally.