Canadian Press: Boundaries Commission

Conservative Caucus Dept: Conservative caucus sources told The Canadian Press that party officials directed them to stand down last year when the Saskatchewan boundaries commission first invited input a year ago, according to Montreal Gazette. The vast majority of those early submissions were in favour of creating new urban-only ridings, instead of the urban-rural hybrids that the Conservatives prefer for both political and practical reasons and OTTAWA - Bad advice from Conservative party headquarters appears to have caused headaches for Saskatchewan MPs, some of whom say they were caught off guard on the redrawing of the province's electoral map. Of the 181 names of people who submitted their views on how the ridings should be formed, there's nary a single MP on the list. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.