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Originally Posted by killer_carlson
I disagree
I think Harper's comments are more easily dismissed because he's had the ability to act upon those comments for several years and not done so.
Trudeau has never had the opportunity to enact legislation consistent with his comments. The jury HAS to still be out on that. Some will be convinced by his apology, some will not.
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I don't think a comment like the one I quoted can be dismissed at all. With some of the riding re-works it actually tries to give him an advantage over what he spoke about. For instance: Combining the Mount Seymour area with Burnaby. They took a riding that was notoriously white and affluent in Seymour, that has been a right-of-center stronghold for more than 20 years (the only non-conservative/reform MP since 1988 was former Mayor, and Liberal, Don Bell who was center-right) and merged it with a riding that had been orange since creation. While not a Liberal riding, it does have some of the characteristics that Harper described. Truth is these two places have next to nothing in common. In fact you can't even visit both sides of the riding without driving through two or three other ridings. It makes no sense.
A lot of this sort of "gerrymandering" is being attributed to the removal of the long form census, which was done by Harper.