[fvc-wat-disc] So, what happened today with ERRE ?

[Eleanor Grant]

What a day!

The 333-page report from ERRE came out around noon Dec 1:
https://t.co/3dXxV2FMLi

The key pages are:
- 95, where PR is clearly recommended (tho in kind of obscure terminology),
- 319 (in which govt response is urged), and
- 321 to the end: the "Supplemental Reports" by Lib members of ERRE and NDP
& Green members.

It feels (to me anyway) like a team of horses pulling in opposite
directions. The Liberal mbrs' report denies that a consensus on PR was
reached, that Cdns were engaged, and that there is enough time to put a new
system in place and familiarize the population with the issues by 2019.

All afternoon, in the House and in media scrums, Minister Monsef repeated
the same misrepresentations, in the very same words - plus insulting the
committee and claiming they hadn't carried out their mandate. (Their
mandate never had been to call for a specific voting system.)

So a day of elation mixed with shock that the governing party would twist
themselves into such pretzels to deny the obvious and doable recommendation
of the committee.

Anyone else get the feeling that this was planned all along, from the day
they agreed to add members to ERRE to make it proportional?  Cdns have been
taken for a big ride.

Eleanor
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