The absence of strictly defined general [i]or[/i] abstract notions of representation has meant that demographic change has not automatically begeted electoral boundary readjustments.

The absence of strictly defined general [i]or[/i] abstract notions of representation has

meant that demographic change has not automatically begeted

electoral boundary readjustments.

--RK Carty (2)

In March 2002 Canada's Chief Electoral Officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, announced Canada's revised electoral distributions based forward the recent decennial census. The resulting redistribution of seats in the House of publics produced some odd results. While the census reported the slowest rate of national population increase in decades, the population of the province of British Columbia

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