Trudeau wanted ranked ballots. Would that have changed Monday’s results? [Video]

Looking back on his time as prime minister, Justin Trudeau said that abandoning his promise of electoral reform was his biggest regret.

“Particularly as we approach this election … I do wish that we’d been able to change the way we elect our governments in this country, so that people could choose a second choice or a third choice on the same ballot,” Trudeau said after announcing his resignation in January, seeming to support a ranked ballot that would let voters pick their preferred candidates in numerical order.

“Parties would spend more time trying to be people’s second or third choices, and people would be looking for things they have in common, rather than trying to polarize and divide Canadians against each other.”

In such a system, also called “alternative vote,” if one person didn’t get a clear majority on the first count, second-choice votes would be counted until someone got more than 50 per cent support.

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