Landing in my inbox is the following seat redistribution proposal from MP Derek Lee:<\/p>\n
Ontario<\/strong> 113 (up from 106 currently and down from 124 in the gov bill)<\/em> I actually like this scheme but given the political challenges in removing <\/em>seats in certain provinces, it will obviously never fly – with either the Liberals or the House of Commons.<\/p>\n Still, the reasoning is sound:<\/p>\n This proposal offers a much more cost-effective alternative to Government Bill C-12, An Act to Amend the Constitution Act, introduced by the Hon. Steven Fletcher, a bill that plans to increase and redistribute the number of ridings per province. The Fairness and Frugality Proposal will provide for improved representation for Canadians while not incurring the over $40 million per year cost associated with the Government\u2019s plan. The proposal recognizes Qu\u00e9bec\u2019s standing in our federation and does not diminish its presence in the House of Commons, in that Qu\u00e9bec will continue to have the same number and percentage of seats. Finally and most importantly, the proposal provides a system of representation that adheres more closely to the principal of \u201crepresentation by population\u201d than both the current system and the plan proposed by the Harper Government in Bill C-12.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Landing in my inbox is the following seat redistribution proposal from MP Derek Lee: Ontario 113 (up from 106 currently and down from 124 in the gov bill)Qu\u00e9bec 75B.C. 39 (up from 36 currently, but down from the proposed 43)Manitoba 11 (down from 14)Newfoundland 6 (down from 7)Saskatchewan 10 (down from 14)Alberta 31 (up from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong> 75
B.C.<\/strong> 39 (up from 36 currently, but down from the proposed 43)
<\/em>Manitoba<\/strong> 11 (down from 14)<\/em>
Newfoundland<\/strong> 6 (down from 7)<\/em>
Saskatchewan<\/strong> 10 (down from 14)<\/em>
Alberta<\/strong> 31 (up from 28, but down from the proposed 33)
<\/em>New Brunswick<\/strong> 7 (down from 10)
<\/em>Nova Scotia<\/strong> 9 (down from 11)<\/em>
P.E.I.<\/strong> 4
N.W. Terr.<\/strong> 1
Yukon<\/strong> 1
Nunavut<\/strong> 1<\/p>\n