Among this government's few redeeming features is that it offers up on a daily basis pure comedy gold.  Unintentional and self inflicted but nonetheless hilarious, this will  increase now that the government is out of time stalling on their more rash promises and must at least pretend to do something about them.  .

Your editorial is a nice comic touch on the Liberals' cognitive dissonance, dissembling, equivocating and other gyrations in regard to their electoral reform promise.   

The PM's preferred choice of a ranked ballot system was too obviously self-serving and is dead in the water.  This leaves FPTP and PR and the Liberals don't want a PR system because the chances of then securing a  majority government are next to nil (2 majorities with over 50% of the vote in over sixty years).  

So the government will try to rag the puck until after the 2019 election.  If the NDP is decimated, a referendum may risked as a majority becomes more possible and as FPTP may win anyway.