"...But making promises you know you can’t keep, in order to win an election is a serious business, with dangerous consequences.
One poll before the last election suggested only 22 per cent of Canadians trusted the Liberals to keep their promises and none of the parties got over 30 per cent.
Such widespread cynicism creates a trust deficit that generates the conditions for populism and anti-establishment politics. This particular broken promise is less high profile than whoppers like the abolition of first-past-the-post elections but it is no less egregious..."
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