A Bloc Québécois public safety critic who criticized cabinet’s use of emergency powers against the Freedom Convoy will be the only MP in Québec to lose her riding under federal redistricting..MP Kristina Michaud had ridiculed claims that “someone in a hot tub in the middle of Wellington Street” posed a threat to Canada's national security..According to Blacklock's Reporter, federal Electoral Boundaries Commission in a report Friday said the riding held by Michaud (Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia) should be eliminated. “Gaspésie will lose a Member of Parliament,” wrote the Commission..The recommendation was nonpartisan, said the Commission. The population of the riding in the last decade had shrunk 6% from 74,547 electors to 70,253 and was “the least populated of all the electoral districts in Québec,” said the report Proposal Of The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission For The Province Of Québec..The province would retain its current 78 seats with the addition of a new riding north of Montréal in the Laurentian Mountains, to be called Les Pays d’en Haut. “The Commission’s next step will be to hear from citizens,” the Commission said in a statement..“The goal of redistributing the electoral map is to ensure all citizens have the same political influence,” it said. “It would be inequitable and contrary to the very essence of democracy if our system were any different.”.Michaud did not provide a comment. As vice-chair of the House of Commons public safety committee Michaud criticized cabinet’s February 14 invocation of the Emergencies Act against truckers protesting vaccine mandates..“It’s not enough to say it was useful,” Michaud told a February 25 committee hearing. “You must prove it was necessary and indispensable. I don’t want to minimize what has been said about the occupation, but someone in a hot tub in the middle of Wellington Street doesn’t seem to be a national security threat.”.“How long does the Prime Minister plan to maintain the emergency measures?” Michaud asked the House of Commons February 21. “Will he keep them in place forever even if there is no longer a crisis, just in case the truckers come back? Seriously, what will it take for the government to realize that it was not the Emergencies Act that resolved the crisis?”.National redistricting under the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act will see the Commons grow overall from 338 to 343 seats. Alberta will gain three new ridings, all in the Calgary area. British Columbia will gain one new riding, Vernon-Lake Country. Ontario will gain one new seat not yet drawn. All other provinces retain their current seat quota..The updated electoral map is as follows: Ontario (122 seats), Québec (78), British Columbia (43), Alberta (37), Saskatchewan (14), Manitoba (14) Nova Scotia (11), New Brunswick (10), Newfoundland and Labrador (seven), Prince Edward Island (four), Yukon (one), Northwest Territories (one) and Nunavut (one).
A Bloc Québécois public safety critic who criticized cabinet’s use of emergency powers against the Freedom Convoy will be the only MP in Québec to lose her riding under federal redistricting..MP Kristina Michaud had ridiculed claims that “someone in a hot tub in the middle of Wellington Street” posed a threat to Canada's national security..According to Blacklock's Reporter, federal Electoral Boundaries Commission in a report Friday said the riding held by Michaud (Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia) should be eliminated. “Gaspésie will lose a Member of Parliament,” wrote the Commission..The recommendation was nonpartisan, said the Commission. The population of the riding in the last decade had shrunk 6% from 74,547 electors to 70,253 and was “the least populated of all the electoral districts in Québec,” said the report Proposal Of The Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission For The Province Of Québec..The province would retain its current 78 seats with the addition of a new riding north of Montréal in the Laurentian Mountains, to be called Les Pays d’en Haut. “The Commission’s next step will be to hear from citizens,” the Commission said in a statement..“The goal of redistributing the electoral map is to ensure all citizens have the same political influence,” it said. “It would be inequitable and contrary to the very essence of democracy if our system were any different.”.Michaud did not provide a comment. As vice-chair of the House of Commons public safety committee Michaud criticized cabinet’s February 14 invocation of the Emergencies Act against truckers protesting vaccine mandates..“It’s not enough to say it was useful,” Michaud told a February 25 committee hearing. “You must prove it was necessary and indispensable. I don’t want to minimize what has been said about the occupation, but someone in a hot tub in the middle of Wellington Street doesn’t seem to be a national security threat.”.“How long does the Prime Minister plan to maintain the emergency measures?” Michaud asked the House of Commons February 21. “Will he keep them in place forever even if there is no longer a crisis, just in case the truckers come back? Seriously, what will it take for the government to realize that it was not the Emergencies Act that resolved the crisis?”.National redistricting under the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act will see the Commons grow overall from 338 to 343 seats. Alberta will gain three new ridings, all in the Calgary area. British Columbia will gain one new riding, Vernon-Lake Country. Ontario will gain one new seat not yet drawn. All other provinces retain their current seat quota..The updated electoral map is as follows: Ontario (122 seats), Québec (78), British Columbia (43), Alberta (37), Saskatchewan (14), Manitoba (14) Nova Scotia (11), New Brunswick (10), Newfoundland and Labrador (seven), Prince Edward Island (four), Yukon (one), Northwest Territories (one) and Nunavut (one).
