The Canadian Parliamentary Review recently published my article “Adjusting Federal Electoral Boundaries in Canada: Redistribution 2022” as part of a special issue on federal electoral redistribution based on the presentations that my colleagues and I gave to the Canadian Study of Parliament Group’s conference “Dissecting Redistribution” in April 2023. I have also adapted this project into a book analysing all the aspects of what Elections Canada calls Redistribution 2022, while this abridged article only provides a meta-narrative of the basic steps under the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act  from the perspective of Elections Canada.

• Canadian Parliamentary Review: A Focus on Electoral Boundaries Redistribution

This special issue of the CPR includes articles by Tamara Small, a Professor of Political Science at the University of Guelph; Rémi Léger, a Professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser University; Valere Gaspard, a PhD candidate at the University of Ottawa; Andre Barnes, a Research Analyst at the Library of Parliament; and Floyd McCormick, a retired former Clerk of the Yukon Legislative Assembly. Professors Small and Léger also presented at the CSPG’s seminar last year.

Will Stos, the Editor of the CPR, also mentioned in the introduction to this special issue that another special issue featuring former commissions from Redistribution 2022 might follow “in the not-too-distant future”, after the courts deal with some upcoming applications for judicial review. Jaime Battiste, a Liberal MP from Cape Breton, threatened litigation if the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Nova Scotia did not accede to his demands at PROC; he seems to have made good on that vow because the Eskasoni Mikmaw, of which he is a part, filed an application with the Federal Court of Canada under file number T-1074-23 in 2023. The Federal Court’s records reveal little, but they do mention something about the final report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Nova Scotia. I shall also watch that case with great interest.      

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