Supreme Court rejects Quebec’s attempt to block changes to election map boundaries - BERITAJA

The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected an entreaty by the Quebec authorities that sought to block a redrawing of the provincial electoral map.The 7-2 determination delivered from the chair intends that a riding connected the Gaspé Peninsula and different successful Montreal’s eastbound extremity will beryllium eliminated successful favour of 2 caller districts successful the increasing Laurentians/Lanaudière and Centre-du-Québec regions.Premier François Legault’s authorities tabled a rule successful 2024 to block the redrawing crafted by the independent electoral boundaries commission, aft members of each parties expressed concerns that the new map would return distant governmental weight from Gaspé and make ridings successful eastbound Quebec overly large.

But the Supreme Court of Canada sided with Quebec’s Court of Appeal, which ruled past twelvemonth that the rule is unconstitutional and violates sections of the Charter that guarantee antiauthoritarian representation.

Quebec’s election law mandates that the election map should beryllium reviewed each 2 elections to account for population changes and guarantee that each of the province’s 125 ridings incorporate about adjacent numbers of voters.

Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette says the province’s antiauthoritarian institutions curate will array a caller measure successful business pinch the guidance parties to protect the ridings that are slated to be eliminated.

This study by BERITAJA was first published April 22, 2026.