House Hansard - 89

44th Parl. 1st Sess.

June 15, 2022 02:00PM

Mr. Daniel Blaikie (Elmwood—Transcona, NDP)

Jun/15/22 6:40:51 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-14

Madam Speaker, I thank the member for his speech and for some of what he has had to say about the importance of representation by population. It made me think of something more recent than the Constitution Act of 1867: the rules for the Conservative leadership race. These do not have representation by population. Each riding in the country, no matter where it is and no matter how many members there are in that region and in those ridings, is accorded an equal number of points. In fact, I believe those points are distributed on a proportional basis, which is a debate perhaps for another time. Does he feel the Conservative leadership race should be put on hold until they have a representation by population system in place for their party?

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Mr. Earl Dreeshen (Red Deer—Mountain View, CPC)

Jun/15/22 6:42:18 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-14

Madam Speaker, the hon. member has seen a lot of the country and certainly understands what is taking place. I would like to talk to him about representation by responsibility. He did mention it when he talked about the size of his riding and compared it with some of the rural ridings that we see all around the country. Certainly in Alberta, in one riding we could have 40 different municipalities that one has to be responsible for. It may take hours or days to get there and back. Could he comment on how that also tends to affect the ability of members of Parliament to represent their communities?

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Mr. Adam van Koeverden (Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Health and to the Minister of Sport, Lib.)

Jun/15/22 6:56:35 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-14

Madam Speaker, the member has such a long track record of service in this place, so I have a very broad question for him, because I know he has a lot of knowledge. This is a complicated thing to figure out, how to best represent our neighbours, given the geography of Canada and how far spread out we are. Could he expand on the importance of ensuring that from a riding size perspective and a population perspective how that representation is important? We are representing people, but we are also representing territory.

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Mr. Kevin Lamoureux

Jun/15/22 6:57:10 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-14

Madam Speaker, that is a wonderful question. One of the things that I could add to the debate is to say that we all want to have fair representation for the people and communities which we represent. We are talking about the independence of Elections Canada. We could just as equally be talking about the important services that members of Parliament, elected officials, provide to their constituents through the resources provided to them through the House of Commons, for example, a member's allowance, travel frequency and how convenient it is for members to be able to participate. There is a wide spectrum of things that complement a member's ability to represent the communities they have been elected to represent. This type of discussion would be very fruitful going forward.

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Mr. Brad Vis (Mission—Matsqui—Fraser Canyon, CPC)

Jun/15/22 7:43:43 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-14

Mr. Speaker, does the member believe British Columbia should have equal representation in the House of Commons? The band-aid solution we are applying here to Bill C-14 is really just avoiding the big questions our country is facing. Also, I would love to hear some more comments from the member on her interaction with the electoral commission about effective representation in rural Canada.

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