The best way to summarize Conservative House Leader Peter Van Loan and the Harper Government’s attitude to the province of Ontario on their complaints of being short-changed on the proposed seat re-distribution in Canada where BC and Alberta are getting seats that will accurately reflect their increase in population. while Ontario does not is this:
“We don’t understand why Ontario would be crybabies over our attempts to add more seats in areas of the country where we are more likely to win them”
As we saw yesterday, this continues a pattern of attempting to demonize a rival by the Cons government - it’s painfully obvious to others as well, and I’d add it’s rather obvious that this is a rather blatant attempt to gerrymander the seat additions to the Cons. benefit in future elections.
BC and Alberta certainly deserve seat additions to reflect representation by population standings in the House of Commons in Ottawa, but if you’re going to do it for them, you have to do it for Ontario as well, and not just offer them token seat additions in an attempt to disguise the real motive behind this move, as the Cons. are doing.
What about the idea of Dion formally adopting McGuinty’s argument?