Evidence of meeting #59 for Procedure and House Affairs in the 41st Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament’s site, as are the minutes.) The winning word was lethbridge.
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12:25 p.m.
Conservative
Joan Crockatt Conservative Calgary Centre, AB
I don't know if they're concerned about geographical size or not. It wouldn't seem to me—
12:25 p.m.
Liberal
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Joan Crockatt Conservative Calgary Centre, AB
Oh, no, not population: all these changes are still within the 5%.
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
Stéphane Dion Liberal Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, QC
It would help the committee if you were able to bring a lot of support for your proposal from the people of the communities. How long would you have to do that?
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
We'll discuss writing the report on Thursday, and over the break we'll likely write it and accept it when we get back.
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Joan Crockatt Conservative Calgary Centre, AB
I would be able to. I've had a letter from Deepak saying he doesn't object. His riding abuts it.
But we could probably pull together at least a couple from community associations.
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Joan Crockatt Conservative Calgary Centre, AB
Sorry. We could probably pull together at least a couple of letters from community associations.
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
Stéphane Dion Liberal Saint-Laurent—Cartierville, QC
Colleagues, please. Please, can you repeat that again?
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Joan Crockatt Conservative Calgary Centre, AB
Mais oui. I'm sure I can pull together a couple of letters. Is that what you'd like to see?
12:30 p.m.
Liberal
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
Mr. Shory, I'm just guessing that the five addresses of people they have down as living there are people who are using a business address to receive their mail and there's been some kind of clerical error and they've been assumed to live there because that's where they get their mail sent to.
That's probably the explanation.
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
I wanted to ask you that question to make the point. Somebody said you live there but you don't actually live there. Your constituency office is there.
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
Right. So that raises the question. I think I know the answer to this already from looking at the map, but when they were zooming in, you could see that it was a fairly major road, and in a sense, if people were living in the office, it would be natural to use the road as a dividing line. I think I'm right in saying this. You can correct me if I'm wrong, because there would be a road that's hard to cross by foot, and they're isolated from the riding.
But in this case the problem, I gather, is actually the opposite. The fact that it's a major road means it's easy for people to get from the rest of the riding to the office even though the office is not central in the riding. Would that be correct?
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Devinder Shory Conservative Calgary Northeast, AB
That's absolutely right, and not only that. I would say that since the office has been there—my riding is very diversified—it's very convenient. There's a lot of parking there. This place has been known to the constituents, as I said, for years and years. It's very convenient for the community.
12:30 p.m.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
It was the constituency office before you were the MP as well.