The Conservative government will announce plans in Friday’s Throne Speech to increase the number of seats in the House of Commons in time for the 2015 election so that Ontario, British Columbia and Alberta voters receive the representation they deserve.
Seat redistribution is the third element of a Conservative package of reforms – the others include electing senators to fixed terms and abolishing public subsidies for parties – aimed at reshaping the political landscape at the federal level.
Together, they aim to make Parliament more democratically accountable – while also, not coincidentally, benefiting both Ontario and the West as well as the Conservative Party itself.
The government wants the complete package passed into law within a year, an ambitious agenda but possible now that Prime Minister Stephen Harper commands majorities in both the House of Commons and Senate.
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