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.
A recording is available from Parliament.
Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
If you know the answer on this, I'd like to hear it. What does the census data indicate for the population growth trends? In ten years from now, for example, the time the next census comes out, have they anticipated what the population of each of those two centres might be?
Conservative
LaVar Payne Conservative Medicine Hat, AB
Honestly, Tom, I don't know that answer. However, I can tell you that the population of Medicine Hat increased by 87 over the last three years. That's not very much, 87 people.
Conservative
Jim Hillyer Conservative Lethbridge, AB
Lethbridge has been growing quite a bit. The commission, in their report, said that one of the reasons they made these changes was to allow for foreseeable growth.
Conservative
Tom Lukiwski Conservative Regina—Lumsden—Lake Centre, SK
So they would be considered cities—obviously, compared with Calgary and Edmonton, small cities, but cities nonetheless. You talked about this hybrid situation where it's a mix between the city and some rural residents, and that everyone, both city residents and rural residents, is satisfied with that.
Is that correct? They don't see any different issues that would...?
Conservative
Conservative
Jim Hillyer Conservative Lethbridge, AB
It has worked very well over the years. The current Lethbridge riding is that mix. No one wanted that to change; they just recognized it as a necessity.
The current proposal, that has the City of Lethbridge and the County of Lethbridge, everyone in those small towns is happy with. The people in the city have no concerns with having the small towns around it.
Conservative
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Thank you.
I've no one left on our speaking list, so all our questions have been answered. Fantastic.
Conservative
The Chair Conservative Joe Preston
Perfect.
I'll agree with the smart member there.
Thank you very much. You've supplied us with great documentation to start off with, and I think being able to read through it as we went helped us.
I will dismiss our guests.
We'll suspend just for a moment while our guests leave and we wait for our new guests.
Conservative
Conservative
Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
On the right there in the grey, is that the Medicine Hat riding as it is in the second map in the report?
Benoit Montpetit Team Leader, Technical Expert, Electoral Geography, Elections Canada
It's going to track on the report, and on the left screen the different colours show a different riding, and it's according to what was presented.
Conservative
Scott Armstrong Conservative Cumberland—Colchester—Musquodoboit Valley, NS
Okay. So that's the difference there.
Team Leader, Technical Expert, Electoral Geography, Elections Canada
Up north here you have the south portion of Red Deer River, and here the transfer of Newell County, and south here Warner County and Cardston.
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Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
So the right is the second report of the boundaries commission, and the left is the status quo—what it is right now?
Team Leader, Technical Expert, Electoral Geography, Elections Canada
No, it's what was proposed this morning.
Conservative
Scott Reid Conservative Lanark—Frontenac—Lennox and Addington, ON
Each colour signifies a riding. Is that right?
Team Leader, Technical Expert, Electoral Geography, Elections Canada
That's right.
NDP
Nathan Cullen NDP Skeena—Bulkley Valley, BC
The suggestions was that it would curl right around Lethbridge.