The Canadian Press: The motion allows for a committee of legislature members, with a majority from Smith’s United Conservatives, to be struck to oversee the work of a new advisory panel tasked with reviewing and redrawing by the fall recently proposed riding maps.
That panel will be tasked with rejigging the majority opinion put forward last month by a bipartisan commission that split largely along party lines and came up with profoundly different proposals. The new panel will be allowed to create four additional seats, rather than two as the previous one was limited to when the government started the redrawing process over a year ago. It will bring the total number of seats to 91 from 87…