And from Section X, Response to the Minority Report, it's clear the chair agrees
What happened to Don Braid? Wasn't there a time when he was a serious enough commentator that he wouldn't fall into foolish Americanisms like the boy who cried communism?
As a side note regarding legalized sports gambling, I take more issue with the fact that we allow advertising than that we allow the gambling itself. It should be legalized and regulated to reduce the harm, but by allowing so much advertising we're actually amplifying the harm.
I guess there's a reason that after the National Post took them over, Don Braid stuck around at the Herald. Unlike Graham Thomson, who had the principle to ditch the Journal.
The ridings will change, that much is for sure. Usually the commission issues a final report and the government accepts it. So that seems likely. Anything else would be unprecedented, but theoretically possible, such as if the government wanted to use the minority report for some reason.
"No previous Electoral Boundaries Commission has ever had a minority report which provided maps of alternative electoral boundaries or constituency-by-constituency descriptions."
However, this minority report is unprecedented drivel. Usually the minority report on boundary commissions is like "we think it should have preserved local rural communities better." Releasing a whole different set of maps is a terrible practice.
A minority report is when some of a committee doesn't agree with the final findings of the majority of a committee. So a committee might report X, while a minority of the members on the committee might disagree and the minority report is that disagreement.
Jack Layton was never afraid to criticize and attack the Liberals. If anything, Jagmeet was softer than Jack.
Section X, Response to the Minority Report, is downright scathing
