The Pollcast: Liberals shift on electoral reform — what now?
CBC News | Posted: June 2, 2016 10:39 PM | Last Updated: June 2, 2016
Host Éric Grenier is joined by CBC's Aaron Wherry
The CBC Pollcast, hosted by CBC poll analyst and ThreeHundredEight.com founder Éric Grenier, explores the world of electoral politics, political polls and the trends they reveal.
The Liberals have backed down on their electoral reform plans, accepting an NDP proposal to award seats on the electoral reform committee according to how many votes each party earned in last year's election.
That means the Liberals have given up their majority on that committee. What's next?
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After months of saying that the original proposal for the make up of the committee — giving the Liberals a majority of seats while awarding the Greens and Bloc Québécois one seat apiece, but no voting rights — was appropriate, the shift in the Liberals' position is dramatic.
Does this signal that the Liberals and New Democrats will co-operate on electoral reform? As the New Democrats support a form of proportional representation, is that now likely to be the kind of system that will be used in the 2019 federal election? And where does the Conservative Party fit into the equation, now that they've lost an opposition ally?
Joining host Éric Grenier to try to answer these questions is the CBC's Aaron Wherry.
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