Electoral-reform pledge abandoned

The mandate letter to Democratic Institutions Minister Karina Gould stated that 'changing the electoral system will not be in your mandate', reversing the repeated 2015 commitment that it would be the last federal election under first-past-the-post. (direction: illiberal)

Referenced entities

Parties

Liberal Party of Canada

Sources

www.cbc.ca

Permalink: https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8efde716-bbb3-48ca-95da-72e77a0802aa

How to cite

Each record carries a retrieval date because the dataset is live — individual entries update as verification deepens. Use the per-record citation when referencing this specific profile; use the dataset citation below when referencing the project as a whole.

In-text: (Gara, 2026)

Per-record citation

APA 7Reference list · academic default

Gara, T. (2026). Electoral-reform pledge abandoned [Event record]. Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8efde716-bbb3-48ca-95da-72e77a0802aa

Chicago author-dateCommon in political-science journals

Gara, Tarek. 2026. "Electoral-reform pledge abandoned." Event record, Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset. Accessed August 6, 2026. https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8efde716-bbb3-48ca-95da-72e77a0802aa.

BibTeXFor LaTeX / Zotero / reference managers

@misc{tayyar-event-8efde716-bbb3-48ca-95da-72e77a0802aa,
  title     = {{Electoral-reform pledge abandoned}},
  author    = {Gara, Tarek},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset},
  type      = {Event record},
  url       = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/pulse/8efde716-bbb3-48ca-95da-72e77a0802aa},
  urldate   = {2026-08-06},
  note      = {Event date: 2017-02-01. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.}
}

Dataset / working-paper citation

If you're citing Tayyar as a project rather than this individual record.

APA 7Preprint

Gara, T. (2026). Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset [Preprint]. Retrieved August 6, 2026, from https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper

BibTeXPreprint

@unpublished{tayyar-preprint,
  title  = {{Tayyar: A MENA political-position dataset}},
  author = {Gara, Tarek},
  year   = {2026},
  type   = {Preprint},
  url    = {https://tarekgara.com/tayyar/paper},
  urldate = {2026-08-06},
  note   = {Living document, regenerated from the live dataset on page load.}
}

Event date: 2017-02-01. First-pass entry; second-pass external review planned before publication.