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Pierre Poilievre didn’t get a lot of ink when he announced that Conservatives would stick with the existing system for electing Members of Parliament.

The system – known as first past the post — has worked well enough for 150 years and the government sees no compelling reason to change it now, he noted.

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“Every time Canadians have voted on this, they chose to keep the current system. We will continue to respect the democratic will of Canadians,” said Poilievre, the Minister for Democratic Reform.

It may be singularly Conservative, of course, that the Minister for Democratic Reform would be against Democratic Reform, but hardly a surprise. The news would have been if the Tories had suddenly thrown in their lot with the other two major parties and pledged to abandon the system that got them elected, as it has every other government since 1867. Poilievre had already spoken on the topic in the House of Commons, noting: