The federal government announced it is abandoning a commitment to reform the electoral system and opinions differ whether or not it matters.
Conservative MP Arnold Viersen said it will be interesting to see how the Opposition handles the Liberal decision in the coming weeks.
“They [federal government] obviously lied to every single Canadian who voted for them, promising to reform the electoral process and then blatantly abandoning it like this,” Viersen told the Barrhead Leader Feb. 1, adding he believed it was a betrayal of confidence.
“The Prime Minister seems to think that the rules don’t apply to him and that he can say one thing but do another. The NDP are really upset by this development and so are we. It [electoral reform] was a promise the NDP made originally and he [Trudeau] took a lot of support away from them when the Liberals made it their own. Now they are blatantly abandoning it and the confidence of Canadians in our federal government is being jeopardized.”
However, Barrhead-Morinville-Westlock MLA Glen van Dijken said there are more pressing issues that need to be addressed by the federal government.
“Our electoral system has served us well and it is not broken, so it shouldn’t be messed with,” van Dijken said.
