Justice Minister Mickey Avery announced today that the UCP is adding two seats to the legislature and redrawing the provincial constituency map. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

And let me guess. By some mysterious UCP math, the additional seats will be rural, even though rural Alberta is already over-represented

Curious to see what self-serving fuckery they’ll work into this… because anything they actually do bother to get done is going to be completely in their best interests, not the best interests of Albertans.

All without a census, hmm? Even ATB says most of the population growth went to cities. So will we see two more seats for the cities?

Who didn’t see this coming? And when we see the redrawing of boundaries, I imagine the word Gerrymandering (look it up) will become very prominent in our lexicon. Sure hope I’m wrong.

I got $20 bucks on extra seats for rural areas so there's little to no way for the urban population to vote in ndp.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Doesn’t the commission work arms length from the GoA? There isn’t the same risk of gerrymandering like in the US? @DuaneBratt?

How much do we want to bet it'll benefit these idiots?

We don’t need more MLAs. Good god what a waste of money. All mine does is drink and ignore emails. What is needed is a rebalance that reflects where the damn people live. Edmonton South: 70,000 people Peace-Notley: 26,000

I wonder how much of their funding and support is about to crash if Harris wins tonight - all their US support are about to go through some things if they do

The UCP will gerrymander it. Count on it.