What’s not adding up is the dishonest and contrived agenda the Trudeau government is pursuing.
Perhaps the Liberals think voter outrage will fade before next election, especially here in B.C. where they secured a false majority despite less than 40 per cent of the vote nationally. Apparently they feel it’s OK to push through pipeline approvals without popular support, but when their rigged electoral-reform committee delivers a call for replacing our outdated voting system, they don’t just balk, they try to perpetrate a total scam on voters.
In Parliament, outrageous and irresponsible comments were made by Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef, stepping in to take the heat for the absent prime minister.
When she held public consultation meetings here in Victoria in October, some of us were willing to give her the benefit of the doubt on her seemingly uninformed stance then. It is now clear, she and Justin Trudeau had a preset outcome in mind. The all-party committee proposed proportional representation and they panicked.
Trudeau and Monsef promised something very different than this. Shame on them.
History will vindicate voters who must demand change now. With a PR electoral system, no one party would likely hold majority control and we’d see much more balanced decisions and actions, in line with and responsive to voters’ desires.
Environmentalists, if you don’t want bad decisions, rise up and join the call for electoral reform.
Mark Jeffers
Victoria
