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A brief Wikipedia entry, meanwhile, recalls, via the Toronto Star, that, while on the campaign trail, she “attracted minor attention for deleting a three-year-old tweet expressing opposition to the Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipelines and to the development of the Alberta tar sands in general,” but was nonetheless able to beat incumbent Conservative MP Mike Wallace at the ballot box by just more than 2,000 votes.

Why, though, has the prime minister decided that, out of all his MPs, she would make the best choice to pick through the rubble from Monsef’s final weeks on the job, during which she launched both an unprecedented public attack on the all-party committee charged with advising the government on how it should go about changing how Canadians vote and a much-lampooned online survey?

In fact, during last June’s debate on the creation of that very same committee, Gould — who, like all her Liberal colleagues, voted in support of the resolution — described electoral reform as “the next step… toward a more inclusive system.”

“We can build a better system that provides a stronger link between the democratic will of Canadians and the election results,” she told the House.

“To get there, the process leading to reform must also embody these values,” she continued.

“Parliamentarians will need to set aside partisan interests and engage in a thoughtful and substantive dialogue with each other and with citizens.”

To that end, she said, she “strongly believes that “stepping away from the first past the post system and embracing a new system that can reflect these values and the values articulated in this amended motion would be another milestone in the history of Canada’s elections.”