1. N. Ward,The Canadian House of Commons: Representation(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1950), p. 19. Power was a longtime Liberal M.P. and power broker from Quebec.
2. N. Ward, “A Century of Constituencies,”Canadian Public Administration, 10 (1967), 105–22; R. M. Dawson, “The Gerrymander of 1882,”Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science1 (1935), 197–221.
3. W. E. Lyons,One Man–One Vote(McGraw-Hill, 1970); J. C. Courtney, “Minutes of Proceedings and Evidence of the Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections,” House of Commons, March 19, 1985.
4. This ignores the problem of electoral districting at the local level. Such bodies are the creatures of provincial assemblies and not free to make their own decisions on this matter.
5. For instance whole sections of the Newfoundland statute seem to have been lifted from the Canadian Act; Manitoba's Provincial Secretary justified the 1968 adoption of a particular apportionment tolerance by citing the “good precedent” set by the 1964 Canadian Act.