I’d have to give Stats Can a solid “B” for this map. My major complaint is that by solidly colouring each electoral district, the general impression it gives is skewed to towards lightly populated rural and northern areas. A better approach (IMO) would be to colour-code the entire area of each district in some pastel shade, but placing an intensely coloured dot in each. That way you’d see at a glance where the districts are clusters. It would also help to have cut-in maps of the more densely populated areas (e.g. Vancouver-Victoria, Calgary-Edmonton, southern Ontario, southern Quebec), and maybe additional maps for metro Vancouver, Toronto, and Montreal.

My minor complaint is the unnecessary overlay of a river map, which adds nothing but distraction

Cheers,

Chris Burd