On\u00a0Wednesday, the final report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario was tabled in the House of Commons. Despite clear objections regarding representation in the North from the NDP and Liberals, electoral districts in Northern Ontario will be reduced, from ten to nine, with those districts set to become significantly larger. The Conservative party provided a dissenting report, agreeing that the residents of Northern Ontario\u00a0should lose a voice advocating on the issues that matter in Ottawa.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe fought hard, made our voices heard at public hearings and in committee, and yet the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission refused to maintain ten electoral districts in the North,\u201d said Carol Hughes, MP for Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing. \u201cThe unfortunate reality is that this new electoral map will mean less representation for Northern Ontarians, more challenges for MPs to represent their riding and a reduced voice in Parliament. It\u2019s disappointing that we didn\u2019t have unanimity in opposing this cut from all parties.\u201d<\/p>\n
Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing is the riding which will be affected the most, as it is effectively being carved and divided between the following ridings: Sudbury East-Manitoulin-Nickel Belt, Sault Ste. Marie-Algoma, and Kapuskasing-Timmins-Mushkegowuk. However, it should be noted that the Commission has recommended that Parliament address the number of electoral districts in Northern Ontario.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s be clear, this isn\u2019t over,\u201d said Charlie Angus, MP for Timmins-James Bay. \u201cIf the Commission is recommending an act of Parliament to keep these ridings in the North, then that\u2019s where our next battle will be.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is quite odd that not a single Conservative MP from Northern Ontario bothered to show up at\u00a0Standing\u00a0Committee on\u00a0Procedures and House Affairs (PROC)\u00a0to fight for representation in their own backyard, but reading the Conservative\u2019s Dissenting Report from the PROC Committee, it\u2019s clear that Pierre Poilievre and the Conservative Party don\u2019t\u00a0care about the North losing representation,\u201d said Angus.\u00a0 \u201cTheir Dissenting Report says \u2018Respectfully, we submit that no changes should be made to the Commission\u2019s final proposal for Northern Ontario ridings.\u2019\u00a0<\/em>There\u2019s nothing respectful about not showing up to fight for the people of Northern Ontario.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On\u00a0Wednesday, the final report of the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario was tabled in the House of Commons. Despite clear objections regarding representation in the North from the NDP and Liberals, electoral districts in Northern Ontario will be reduced, from ten to nine, with those districts set to become significantly larger. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorials"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 20:11:33","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61791,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61790\/revisions\/61791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}