So why did Justin abandon his promise so readily? Let us harken back to those Dark Days of 2011, when Stephen Harper, The Most Evil Man Who Has Ever Lived™, stole the Canadian election, taking a majority government with a mere 39 per cent of the vote! You may recall the anger, the protests, the signs declaring “I am part of the 60 per cent”!

Thank goodness those days are over! Compare this to the sunny ways of 2015, when Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won a strong and completely legitimate mandate from the Canadian people, garnering an even larger majority than Harper did with a resounding . . . 39 per cent of the vote.

You may not recall the angry protests or media-fed outrage after Justin’s win, because there were none.

Under Canada’s first-past-the-post system, a candidate doesn’t need an outright majority of votes to win their riding, they just need to win the most votes among competing candidates. This system rewards parties like the Liberals and Conservatives, who are routinely overrepresented in Parliament, while severely underrepresenting parties like the NDP and the Green.

Back when the Liberals were in third place, Justin thought this was outrageous! (Because at that time it was the Liberals who were severely underrepresented.) He vowed to end this once and for all!

But then he got elected . . . and the system was now benefiting the Liberals, who received an even greater majority than Harper did with the same per cent of the vote. Suddenly, it didn’t seem so bad.