Bloc Quebecois MP critical of emergency powers to lose her seat?

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Coincidence or calculated?

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Blacklock’s Reporter says Bloc Quebecois MP Kristina Michaud — a  public security critic essential of the fed’s use of emergency powers towards the Freedom Convoy — would be the solely Québec MP to lose her driving underneath federal redistricting really useful by the Electoral Boundaries Fee.

In a report Friday, the fee mentioned Michaud’s driving — Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia — must be eradicated because of a decline in inhabitants.

Michaud mentioned of the convoy occupation that “somebody in a sizzling tub in the midst of Wellington St.” hardly posed a menace to nationwide safety.

“Gaspesie will lose a Member of Parliament,” wrote the Fee, including the advice was nonpartisan.

The report identified her driving’s inhabitants over the last 10 years has shrunk 6% — from 74,547 electors to 70,253 and was “the least populated of all of the electoral districts in Quebec.”

As an alternative, the province will preserve its present 78 seats with a brand new driving north of Montreal within the Laurentian Mountains, to be referred to as Les Pays d’en Haut.

Michaud didn’t remark.

Nationwide redistricting underneath the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act will see the Commons develop from 338 to 343 seats.