Eglinton—Lawrence
Eglinton-Lawrence gains upper Forest Hill Village.
The addition of Forest Hill Village, said Eglinton-Lawrence MP Joe Volpe, makes one of the richest ridings in the country even wealthier.
"There’s still a very large working class segment in the riding, but we’ve lost a good portion of it. In 1997 we also lost another portion of our working class segment. All of that area south of Eglinton is very working class and the riding used to go south of Eglinton to Rogers all the way over to Keele St. So we lost all of that and we just kept that part between Dufferin and the Allan Roadway, but there’s a good section of working class north of Eglinton as well and that hasn’t gone anywhere," he explained.
"What some people don’t appreciate fully, I guess, is that that working class section to the south is all homeowners and to call them working class is almost a misnomer because their family assets are probably equal to or at least competitive with many of the people who live in the wealthier parts of the riding. It’s not a subsidized housing area at all, so that’s why I say when all things are said and done from an electoral point of view the character of the voter in that area is probably not too different from the character of the voter in the upper village — ethnically, demographically it might be a little different, but economically it’s not at all."
The new riding begins at the intersection of the Canadian National Railway situated west of Caledonia Rd. and Hwy. 401; then it proceeds east and northeast along the highway to Yonge St.; then south along Yonge St. to Eglinton Ave. W.; then west along Eglinton Ave. W. to the Canadian National Railway situated west of Croham Rd.; then north along the railway.
The population is now 106,879, down from 111,237 recorded in the 2001 census within the old boundaries.