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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
Indeed. 2.3 million people in Calgary and Edmonton are represented with 44 seats in the new system while 1.0 million people in rural ridings are represented with 43 seats.
Adding a new seat to Fort McMurray makes no sense when Wood-Buffalo and Slave Lake are adjacent ridings. They could just redo the borders to resolve most of that problem.
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While I agree about the Calgary/Edmonton ridings, you do realize that the areas you are talking about are very empty, right? You could move those riding boundaries 100 miles, and you wouldn't change the number of people more than 100 or so - in other words nothing would change but the line on the ground. A better idea would be to look at combining the Dunvegan/Lesser Slave Lake ridings, but from what I know those two ridings are very different places. Adding a seat to Fort Mac is the only "rural" riding addition that would make sense, unless you might consider an Airdrie riding rural, in which case that one would make just as much sense.
Too bad contraction is so hard to do, cause that would make more sense than addition.