PHOTO: This is a chair, a.k.a. a seat. Though not the same make or design, there will be more of these in the House of Commons soon.
Umm...wow.
Is it just me, or is this Conservative government much more active than recent Liberal governments?
There's always something new.
The Senate, or Mulroney, and now this, from a CP story: "The federal government is set to introduce a bill that would give Alberta, B.C., and Ontario extra seats in the House of Commons."
According to this story, there would be 22 new seats, and Ontario would get 10 of those. They will be installed in the House in 2011, after the next census, the story says.
So, in total, there would be 330 seats in the House of Commons and Ontario would have 117 of them.
That means Ontario would have 35 per cent of the seats in the House of Commons. Not too far from the 39 per cent of the population we have. In other words, our percentage of seats in the House would stay about the same. The only difference is that with B.C., Alberta, and Ontario getting more seats, while everyone else stays the same, the eastern and Prairie provinces will have a smaller percentage of the seats than they currently have. They've been over-represented in the House for a long time, so this appears to be a step in the right direction.