Because of Ontario's growth, the northwestern borderlands of Scarborough — slices of the Scarborough-Agincourt and Scarborough Centre ridings — might be annexed into North York in a redrawing of the federal electoral map. But Scarborough is fighting back.
In the fall of 2017, at her first university party, Julia D’Silva made small talk in a room of strangers. One guy asked where she was from. She told him Scarborough. “Aren’t you afraid to walk home at night?” he asked.
“The reality is that the residents of North York do not understand, do not care about, and cannot be expected to vote in Scarborough’s best interest,” she wrote in a letter to the electoral boundary commission for Ontario. “To reduce the representation of the area of Toronto which needs it the most is a gross oversight and a perpetuation of long-standing governmental neglect of Canada’s racialized and working-class communities.
In Toronto, the average riding held close to 112,000 people. Parts of downtown and Etobicoke were booming, while some midtown, North York and Scarborough ridings were growing modestly, stagnant or declining. The commissioners tinkered with the map. Using the census data and population projections, they redrew Scarborough and the rest of Toronto until the average riding held a population of 116,000.Victoria Park Avenue — Vic Park, V.P.
Leighanne Woodstock watched the livestream of the meeting from her home near Warden and Finch avenues., but she’d never seen a collective display. Old people, young people, people from all over making speeches with the passion of Mel Gibson’s William Wallace in “Braveheart.” “Everyone was so gung ho and willing to speak up for where we live,” she says. “It was beautiful to watch.”
Many wrote that Scarborough was a “community of interest.” That was not a coincidence. In addition to looking at the cold hard numbers, commissioners take many things into account, including regions that share common attributes, whether they are racial, linguistic, religious or economic. It’s a loosely defined concept that acts as a “counterweight to unbridled application of the principle of population equality,” John C.
In her constituency office, Scarborough-Agincourt MP Jean Yip has a map of food bank visits across Toronto. It shows the need in Scarborough is higher than anywhere else, including North York.
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