Mr. Chairman. I do not
know what type of order a court would give specifically. In other words, I do not know if a court would, say in dealing with an application involving Yellowknife, that you have to adjust another riding. The difficulty that a court would be faced with is that the court itself is not going to adjust the ridings. They are going to give guidance and you cannot deal with one riding in Yellowknife without affecting other ridings. The court would most likely make comment on the overall population makeup of the ridings and remit the matter back to the legislature for consideration if it felt that it were a problem.
I do not know if they would specifically order that other ridings be dealt with, but they may well comment on the population makeup of other ridings other than the specific one that they are dealing with. They would most likely send the entire matter back to the legislature for legislation if it felt that there were a problem with the boundaries. In other words, they would not do the actual boundary change themselves. They would send it back to this legislature.