Both parties have been abusing this to some degree whenever the electoral ridings have been due for redrawing every 10 years as the population changes. This is the slow slide into tolerance of anti democratic practices I was talking about.

But these adjustments weren’t due until 2030. The president asking to redraw political maps 5 years early with openly expressed specific intent to gain more seats for his party is an unprecedented new low. At that point they don’t even attempt to provide the illusion of free and fair elections