If approved, the bill amending the Constitution Act would make sure that the number of MPs from each province does not drop below the number they had before the last election.

A coalition of Montreal borough and municipality mayors are calling the Director General of Election Quebec’s decision to redistribute provincial ridings a disturbance of Montreal’s natural communities.

"It's my view for a number of reasons that the merging of Mount Royal and Outremont is absolutely ill-designed and contrary to democratic principles that this commission is suppose to be respecting," said Birnbaum.