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Let me get this straight. The leader of the Liberal party, which won only 39.5 per cent of votes in the last election is turning his back on his biggest promise because in a process slyly crafted to confuse and to promote the status quo, a mere 80-plus per cent of respondents expressed the desire for electoral reform, therefore there is no “consensus.”

No, Justin Trudeau, you cannot get away with that math. If there is no “consensus” for a particular scheme of electoral reform, it is because that question was never asked in an online poll, which is the form of participation that is most accessible.

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A number of people have said that this was a promise Mr. Trudeau never intended to keep. I disagree.

I think he would have kept it if his own party had won only with a minority mandate. But having received a majority by the unfair system that is first-past-the-post, the power is too heady, too addictive.

This only demonstrates why a form of proportional representation suitable to Canada is so desperately needed.

NANCIE ERHARD, Windsor

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