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Let’s be honest: There’s really not much in the way of new or noteworthy information in the latest bulletin from the electoral reform activists who make up the Every Voter Counts Alliance. That’s not meant to be a slight, to be clear, or even a particularly pointed critique – it could even be viewed as proof of the strength and consistency of their collective commitment to the cause.

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They’re still firmly in favour of converting Canada to proportional representation, still stubbornly insisting that’s precisely what the all-party special committee recommended when it reported back to the House last December and still, by and large, doing their level best to ignore the fact that it also recommended any such decision be put to the people in a referendum.

One thing we did learn on Thursday, courtesy of a press conference presided over by former Chief Electoral Officer Jean-Pierre Kingsley is that Neil Young – yes, that Neil Young, billed here as “Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, producer, director […], screenwriter and Officer of the Order of Canada” is among the 26 “prominent Canadians” to sign his name to a letter that calls on newly installed Democratic Institutions Minister Karine Gould to “implement the key recommendation of the parliamentary committee and move to a system of proportional representation for the next federal election.”