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House Hansard - 55

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 7, 2022 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 55 - Apr/7/22
Mr. Sukh Dhaliwal (Surrey—Newton, Lib.)
  • Apr/7/22 10:42:37 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-14 
Madam Speaker, first of all, I want to thank the minister for his leadership on this file and for his overall leadership over the past many years. British Columbia has the fastest-growing population. In Surrey, 1,500 people are moving in every month. How would the formula the minister is bringing forward be fair to the people of British Columbia?
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Context: House Hansard - 55 - Apr/7/22
Hon. Dominic LeBlanc
  • Apr/7/22 10:43:10 a.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-14 
Madam Speaker, my friend from Surrey—Newton has represented, in a very effective way, the people of Surrey and the people of British Columbia for many years. He raises an essential point that many of our colleagues from British Columbia have discussed with me and with our government: the importance of respecting the formula, as he noted, that adds additional seats to provinces like his, British Columba, and probably, ultimately, to the Surrey region. We will see what the commission decides in British Columbia. Nothing in this legislation in any way affects provinces such as his, Alberta and Ontario, which have growing populations, from being allocated additional seats under the formula I outlined. Obviously we look forward to the work of the commission in British Columbia to see how those additional seats will reflect population growth in communities as important to Canada as Surrey.
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