It depends on what consequential decision the commission would take on the other side of the riding.
If you added Antigonish back into Central Nova and did not change the proposal near Halifax, it would still be below the average population. If you maintain the existing boundary, rather than extend it to Halifax, it would be below the average to a greater degree. If the commission said they'd put Antigonish back in and extend it all the way to the city, there would still be some challenges.
However, either leaving the boundary as it was on the Halifax side of the riding or extending it as they proposed would still keep them just slightly below the average population across Nova Scotia. I'd have to check the math to be exactly sure, because I don't know the precise population of each community. Either way, though, it would not create challenges from a population point of view, if that's what your question was.
Thank you, Michael.