Do you think they want to sway it towards the status quo ? That seems to go against what they ' ve been saying all along . Their campaign promise was to make 2015 the last election under FPTP . Well we can be pretty sure that any proportional system would reduce the number of seats the Liberals win in parliament . We also know their original platform was to enact IRV ranked ballotsconventionottawa 2012 preferentialballotn 1207701 . htmlWe also know that both Trudeau and Monsef have both publicly stated they are completely against any form of proportional r e p r e s e n t a t i o n t r u d eauelectoralreformopinion 1 . 3814319 I have a feeling that when they found out that the committee disagreed with their views , they concluded that keeping the status quo was better than PR .