Who Killed Electoral Reform-and What Now to Improve Democrac

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Who Killed Electoral Reform — and What Now to Improve Democracy?

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By Bill Tieleman,| TheTyee.ca February 7, 2017

Trudeau pulled the trigger, but reform side’s resistance to referendum gave him the bullets

"This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It’s expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It’s a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace.” — John Cleese in a Monty Python’s Flying Circus TV skit [ http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/64604-t ... ased-to-be ]

Electoral reform is deader than Monty Python’s fabled parrot — “it’s rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible” as predicted in this column in late December. [ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/12/27/E ... nd-BC-LNG/ ]

But who killed the federal Liberals’ campaign promise, energetically repeated over 1,000 times, that 2015 “will be the last federal election conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system” as their website still says? [ https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2016/12/27/E ... nd-BC-LNG/ ]

And what’s next to improve democracy?

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