Is every ballot equal? : IRPP choices, vol 13, no. 1, January 2007

In pro- posing reforms, the focus is on how the Sujit Choudhry holds the Scholl Chair at the Faculty of legitimacy of our system of government can be Law and teaches in the Department of Political Science strengthened before disengagement from politics and the School of Public Policy and Governance at the and public alienation accelerate unduly. [...] In the spirit of inde- 2003 Representation Order, these rules added 27 MPs to pendence, and with the goal of nonpartisanship in the House of Commons — almost 9 percent of the cur- mind, the boundary commissioners are not obliged to rent House. [...] The Speaker refers the Canada, the average riding size (omitting the territories) committee’s report back to the CEO, and the commis- is 98,080. [...] As we mentioned earlier, the baseline of 279 15(1)(a) in order to draw boundaries that respect the provincial seats artificially retards the growth in the factors that should guide the drawing of electoral number of seats in the most populous provinces. [...] The final institutional factor that maintains minority The effect of Raiche may be to change the bal- vote dilution is the lack of discipline imposed by the ance between the two often competing factors in the Charter on the drawing of electoral boundaries.