Last week, the prime minister appeared on a podcast hosted by Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith and was asked what one thing he would have done differently, as PM, in retrospect. Justin Trudeau took no time thinking about the answer, which was “electoral reform”; as if to emphasize his regret, he later retweeted the segment himself.

Naturally, as an anthropologist of election-reform nerdery, I received this podcast clip and put it under the microscope as though it were the Codex Sinaiticus. The brief discussion between Trudeau and Erskine-Smith is absorbing, and may even be an important little piece of Canadian history, but I find myself unsure that the prime minister really answered the question.