Canada: new apportionment formula?

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A new electoral map based on this bill will not come into effect for quite a long time. First the 2011 census has to take place. Then the results have to analysed, then Parliament has to strike redistribution commissions in each province full of demographers and experts who will take their sweet time in proposing new electoral boundaries. Then there will be hearings from coast to coast where everyone picks apart those boundaries and makes the case for changes, then parliament has to approve the new electoral map. I would conservatively estimate that the earliest a new map with the new seat distribution will come into effect will be late 2014 - if not later. It won't be in effect in the next election and it might not even be in effect for the election after the next one.