Canada Federal Representation 2024

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I don't see it being likely in any realistic scenario for Trudeau to cut a Quebec seat. Does he gain anything from doing it? Does it constitute a net good for him in any case?
Harming the Liberals' prospects in Quebec next time doesn't sound like something Trudeau would do.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Any sign of Riding  Builder being available for public use anytime soon?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Any sign of Riding  Builder being available for public use anytime soon?

It's in the pipeline and should be available within the next month, from what I know.

That's great to hear! I hope they get it done!

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Question, who would win a dedicated Thunder Bay riding?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

https://twitter.com/electionatlasCA/status/1501258266256543756?t=dbtxb1CW5umueZF...

Here it is! A big hand to our colleague the506 on here.

Question, who would win a dedicated Thunder Bay riding?

Quoting you to notify you as promised - excuse the non sequitur.

Thank you very much good Sir!
And much thanks to our posters from the Great White North!

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I will post a complete Ontario map soon.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This is a modest proposal, my humble submission.
Toronto is a very important city in Canada, I don't think anyone could deny that. All the most recognizable landmarks in Canada are in Toronto, except for Niagara Falls. It is the biggest city in the country, almost 10 percent of the entire national population. Its history dates back to many, many decades before Confederation. Toronto is the center of the universe after all.

So I thought, why not award all but one of Ontario's ridings to Toronto? As an upside, this also guarantees a Liberal majority government. Not sure who wins the rest-of-Ontario riding but the 905 probably helps them win that too. Democracy is when my side wins, and the more times it wins and the more ridings it wins, the more of a democracy it is. This map will ensure Charter rights remain protected for centuries into the future.
Wilfred Laurier would be so proud.



All the peoplekind of Ontario outside Toronto can rest easy knowing they will be in the largest riding in the entire country.

(Btw this is a joke, to be clear)

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I would look into tweaking it was so that filling by cursor is triggered by clicking three times instead of two.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

This is a (likely atrocious) effort at purely-one-man-one-vote ridings would look like in Northern Ontario.
Some of these are quite large in land area, to say the least.  Surprisingly, Sudbury riding ends up being slightly smaller than the Thunder Bay one.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Timmy, your district names need to be improved:

2: Kenora-Rainy River-Superior North
3: Timiskaming-Timmins-James Bay (this one is tough)
4: Algoma or Sault Ste. Marie-Elliot Lake
6: Nickel Belt-Manitoulin-Parry Sound
7: Nipissing-Petawawa or Nipissing-Algonquin

Are the boundaries themselves fine, though?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Another relevant point for New Brunswick is the current municipal reform, which will cut the number of local governments from 328 to 77 through massive mergers (elections in November with new borders being legal from January 1st 2023).

Hadn't heard of them, but this came up high in the Google results
can we plan for these yet, i.e. make maps for New Brunswick knowing we won't be making something littered with municipal mergers?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Another relevant point for New Brunswick is the current municipal reform, which will cut the number of local governments from 328 to 77 through massive mergers (elections in November with new borders being legal from January 1st 2023).

Hadn't heard of them, but this came up high in the Google results
can we plan for these yet, i.e. make maps for New Brunswick knowing we won't be making something littered with municipal mergers?

https://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/corporate/promo/local-governance-reform/maps.html

It seems every new merged city will be called "Entity X" (the new Fredericton is entity 69 and the new Moncton is Entity 34). I assume the new councils will give themselves names?

Ah. Merci!
This should be helpful to anyone drawing New Brunswick maps. Which could be me at some future point.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Running into issues accessing this. Cannot specify a number of districts. Reloaded page twice and this issue replicated itself without fail.
What to do?

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I made a better map of BC last night. It seemed to get a lot of good comments on Twitter. What do you think?

It's big drawback is the Skeena-Bulkley Valley-Powell River riding. But by creating it, I was able to nuke the Burnaby North-Seymour riding and make the Van Island ridings smaller.

This is immeasurably better than whatever the commission initially proposed! I also like Krago's map, or literally, anything that doesn't resemble terrible choices like Port Coquitlam - Pitt Meadows - Fort Langley!

I made a better map of BC last night. It seemed to get a lot of good comments on Twitter. What do you think?






It's big drawback is the Skeena-Bulkley Valley-Powell River riding. But by creating it, I was able to nuke the Burnaby North-Seymour riding and make the Van Island ridings smaller.

That little northernmost district in Vancouver is quite small.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Why not create a riding that brings together Rosedale, Forest Hill, Leaside and some of North Toronto and have one riding that is exclusively made up of really rich areas so that the rich can elect an MP who will be there to defend their interests relentlessly and without having to care about what poorer constituents think. From the point of view of "community of interest" isn't about time that there was one riding that the super rich could call their own? 

Here you go.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Thoughts on this York Region?

Red 112,281
Dark Blue 120,228
Green 110,676
Yellow 118,679
Hot Pink 121,537
Cyan 106,810
Orange 115,292
Gray 120,707
Pink 124,642
Lighter Blue 122,482

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

And this for Durham Region:

Gold 111,872
Purple 113,980
Dark Gold 117,299
Blue 122,823
Green 111,598
Violet 119,420

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Your Durham Region is excellent.  I like your York Region except for the haircut that Newmarket gets.

Here is my alternative plan for York Region.

King feels like that one place that doesn't fit perfectly with anywhere but has to go with somewhere.
No matter what you do with it it'll look awkward.

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

Sought to redo the whole placement of King...

Red 111,580
Dark Blue 115,504
Green 117,838
Yellow 118,679
Hot Pink 118,787
Cyan 122,401
Orange 118,109
Gray 121,154
Pink 106,810
Lighter Blue 122,472

[President Punxsutawney Phil]

I was curious how representation would look if Quebec's average population per electoral district of 108,998 was applied to the provinces with averages greater than Quebec's. Since Canada rounds up to the next whole number when assigning seats, I will also round up.

Alberta: 41 seats

British Columbia: 48 seats

Ontario: 137 seats

+ 78 Quebec seats

+ 63 seats from the 6 other provinces and 3 territories

Would give a House of Commons consisting of 367 members.

I almost always roll my eyes at claims of "western alienation" in Alberta, but if keeping Quebec at 78 seats was that important, then adjusting the quotient and adding more seats to Alberta, BC, and Ontario as a result is exactly how they should have done it.

On the opposite end, how would Albertans feel if Quebec got a guaranteed 1/4 of Commons seats, per the Bloc's wishes?