Make no mistake about it. This is insidiously dangerous. It is a  thinly veiled precursor  to allow  the Liberals force through election reform in their own version of ranked ballots so as to keep themselves perpetually in power. The Liberals already took heat from many who accuse them of abandoning their election promise and that is worrisome for the next campaign in 2019. With these rules in place ( which they want quickly adopted), they can bring forward the ranked ballot system and ram it through prior to the next election without consideration of  the proportional voting and first past the post systems. Of course they have the practical problem that Elections Canada has said they need 2 years to prepare for any change, so the Liberals will enact the bill, silence the opposition and have an effective date after the next election. They will then say the next election is  a "referendum" and to keep the bad conservatives out the Liberals must be elected.  They will say "promise kept".