System: Opposition Parties and Members

system: The 392-page majority report is the product of a hard-won consensus among members of the committee, on which the four opposition parties held a majority, according to National Observer. Whether the government will accept the recommendations, however, remains far from certain. In a dissenting report, however, the committee Liberal members the party does not support a referendum is essentially recommending that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau abandon his promise to change the system before the next election. Trudeau, who promised that the 2015 federal election would be the last conducted under the so-called first-past-the post system, has already suggested that public enthusiasm for electoral reform has waned since his Liberals won power last fall. Monsef has conducted her own hearings and is about to launch a postcard campaign inviting all Canadians to take part in an online survey. Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef has repeatedly said she detected no consensus around any particular alternative and has warned that the government wont proceed without the broad support of Canadians. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.