The legislation establishes a statutory requirement for redistribution of electoral districts after every decennial Canadian census.
The Opposition Liberals expressed a desire for the commission to have greater flexibility either in the variance of the average population or in the number of districts.
Despite the fact that the vast majority of existing ridings were outside of the +/- 10% population range, most were retained in the new distribution through minor adjustments to their boundaries.
These proposals will be taken to the public in a series of hearings in January 2006, and may be subject to change before the commission tables its final report on February 18, 2006.
There was some question as to whether or not these boundaries will be used in the next general election, there has been much media speculation that the government may fall by April 7, 2006 which would be just two days after the period for appeal of the commission's work will have ended.
The legislation governing the electoral district reform process allowed for appeals to the final report which were signed by two members of the legislature.