The same people who were pushing electoral change last year and the year before that and so on, are still the same people out there protesting,with a few hangers on. Look at the reported numbers, and tell them how there is overwhelming movement for change. When this was all being discussed for over a year, there was a great push among many, that no referendum was needed, since the argument went that Trudeau had a majority and he ran on this promise , therefore he had a mandate to change the system. Following the same logic , Trudeau still has a mandate from the people to govern, and he used that mandate to make a decision, that changing the system was unwarranted. Mandates work both ways , although some may not like the outcome, but that;s the way it goes in a democracy, you can't please everyone, and you can always vote him out.