<p dir="ltr">What a day!</p>
<p dir="ltr">The 333-page report from ERRE came out around noon Dec 1: <a href="https://t.co/3dXxV2FMLi">https://t.co/3dXxV2FMLi</a></p>
<p dir="ltr">The key pages are: <br>
- 95, where PR is clearly recommended (tho in kind of obscure terminology),<br>
- 319 (in which govt response is urged), and <br>
- 321 to the end: the "Supplemental Reports" by Lib members of ERRE and NDP & Green members.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.)</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">Eleanor <br>
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