{"id":470690,"date":"2025-12-25T11:58:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470690\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T11:58:12","slug":"quebec-government-to-ask-supreme-court-to-block-electoral-map-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/470690\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec government to ask Supreme Court to block electoral map changes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Supreme Court of Canada, which the Quebec government is asking to weigh in on a 2024 law blocking electoral map changes.Sean Kilpatrick\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

The Quebec<\/a> government says it will seek leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada to block a redrawing of the provincial electoral map.<\/p>\n

Premier Fran\u00e7ois Legault<\/a>\u2019s government tabled a law in 2024 to interrupt the boundary-redrawing process, which had called for the removal of a riding on the Gasp\u00e9 Peninsula and another in Montreal\u2019s east end.<\/p>\n

Legislature members from all parties voted to adopt the law, which was sparked by concerns that Gasp\u00e9 would lose political weight and that ridings in eastern Quebec would become overly large.<\/p>\n

But the province\u2019s highest court ruled on Dec. 1 that the law is unconstitutional and violates sections of the Charter that guarantee democratic rights.<\/p>\n

In response, Justice Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette says the government will ask the Supreme Court to hear an appeal, adding that citizens in all regions need to be well represented.<\/p>\n

The new map by the province\u2019s electoral boundaries commission would eliminate the Gasp\u00e9 and Montreal ridings in favour of new districts in the growing Laurentians, Lanaudi\u00e8re and Centre-du-Qu\u00e9bec regions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The Supreme Court of Canada, which the Quebec government is asking to weigh…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":470691,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2148,2138,671,104,2132,692,2147,2131,2143,2144,2140,2133,2130,79,407,746,2142,2137,2159,2134,2135,454,2139,1165,728,2149,108,2154,2155,2157,2152,2156,2150,2153,2136,85,2146,80,2145,2151,159,1458,158,1164,2141,67,132,68,1154,107,2158],"class_list":{"0":"post-470690","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-science","49":"tag-sports-news","50":"tag-technology","51":"tag-travel","52":"tag-trudeau","53":"tag-united-states","54":"tag-unitedstates","55":"tag-us","56":"tag-us-news","57":"tag-world-news","58":"tag-yukon"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}