The rise of Trump makes it more urgent than ever to reform our electoral system. In our present system, a future “Trump in Canada” could win with as little as 35% of the vote. Proportional representation should now be quickly grasped onto as an urgently needed deterrent against that horrifying, but very real, possibility. If not, then history may look back at this broken promise of Trudeau as the event that lead to the eventual ruin of everything we hold dear.