Days after fumbling the rollout of an all-party report on reforming how Canadians vote, the Liberals are giving Canadians 25 days to take part in a lengthy online interactive survey on electoral reform.
The Liberal government is launching what it says is the next phase of its study to reform the voting system _ a campaign promise Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has shown signs of backing away from lately _ through a new online portal called MyDemocracy.ca.
The Canadian Press has obtained details of the questions that the government hopes Canadians will answer as it sends postcards today to 15 million households giving details about how to participate online, or by phone if they lack the Internet.
The survey comes after the last week's flare up in the House of Commons in which Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef criticized opposition MPs on the electoral reform committee for not doing their jobs.
Monsef apologized repeatedly, but outrage over her remarks seemed to kneecap any momentum towards finding a new way for Canadians to vote after Trudeau pledged that the 2015 election would be the last one to use the first-past-the-post system.
Opposition MPs on the committee recommended a new proportional voting system, and urged a national referendum to gauge public support for it.