This editorial board may have been a little cavalier on Thursday, when we rejected Liberal MP Marc Garneau’s suggested redistribution scheme out of hand. Now that Mr. Dion has entered the scene and put numbers behind Mr. Garneau’s words, the notion doesn’t seem quite as ridiculous as Mr. Garneau’s somewhat speculative rhetoric suggested. The Liberal plan is very technocratic and politically difficult — it involves taking seats away from Quebec, for one thing — but it is at least worth considering as an alternative to adding more MPs at a cost of up to $18-million per year.
They weren't just "cavalier" on Thursday, they were wrong on the facts. And trying to blame their gross ineptitude on Marc Garneau, by characterizing his so-called "speculative rhetoric" as sounding "ridiculous," is self-serving to the point of being absurd.
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