Hey Toronto — your loss is Calgary's gain!.Canada’s most Liberal city, Toronto, stands to lose a seat in Parliament under federal redistricting. Election planners said as large as Toronto has grown, the rest of Ontario has grown larger..And while the Centre of the Universe loses a seat, Cowtown area gets three new ones, says Blacklock's Reporter..“The Commission noted over-representation in Toronto has emerged due to uneven population growth between Toronto and surrounding areas which is expected to continue to increase in the future,” wrote the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario..“As a result the commission concluded the districts in Toronto can be reduced by one.”.The number of ridings in Toronto would fall from 25 to 24. Commissioners proposed to eliminate the riding of Scarborough-Agincourt currently held by Liberal MP Jean Yip, vice-chair of the Commons public accounts committee..The population of Toronto grew 7% in the past decade to 2.8 million..“The remainder of Ontario grew by 11.7% in the same period,” wrote the Commission..Liberals swept all 25 ridings in the 2021 federal campaign with 51% of the popular vote, the Party’s largest plurality in any major Canadian city..“It starts with loving Toronto more than you’ve ever loved it before,” then-MP Adam Vaughan (Spadina-Fort York, Ont.) said in a 2021 pre-election speech..“That gets you heckled a lot in the House of Commons when you say that, but I left city council to go to Ottawa to make sure people started to love Toronto a little bit better up in Ottawa and this is the love being returned,” said Vaughan..The Boundaries Commission also proposed eliminating a riding in northern Ontario, Timmins-James Bay, currently held by seven-term New Democrat MP Charlie Angus. Much of the constituency would be merged with the Kenora district into a mammoth 520,300 square kilometre constituency renamed Kiiwetinoong-Mushkegowuk. Kenora is currently held by two-term Conservative MP Eric Melillo..Ontario overall would gain one federal seat to 122 under redistricting. .Proposed redrawing of constituencies in other provinces would see one Québec MP lose her seat, Bloc Québécois MP Kristina Michaud (Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia). Michaud is currently vice-chair of the Commons public safety committee..Other changes would see the Calgary area gain three new ridings. British Columbia would gain one new seat, Vernon-Lake Country.
