Its the same “power corrupts” story again and again. Karina Gould gave an impassioned speech on electoral reform (www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentViewer/en/…/hansard#Int…). But after replacing Maryam Monsef as Minister of Democratic Institutions, her views suddenly became far more simplistic. In a 2017 interview on CBC’s Metro Morning, she was asked “Why is it important that people at the very least believe every vote counts?”. She replies “Because they do. … We literally count them: 1, 2, 3, 4, up to the majority that wins.”