Setting Stage for the Rally on BC Electoral Boundaries

Monday, August 27, 2007 08:30 PM

Prince George City Council has approved spending $5,000 for the costs associated with a rally to be held on September 5th.

The rally is to voice opposition to the preliminary report of the BC Electoral Boundaries Commission. That report calls for one less MLA in Prince George.

Councilor Murry Krause is the appointed representative on the North Central Municipal Association which is made up of 44 communities. The NCMA spent most of last weekend discussing the issue, and is developing an emergency resolution to send to the UBCM convention set for later September. The Union of BC Municipalities takes municipal issues to the Province.

The President of the NCMA will be attending the rally and will make a presentation to the Electoral Boundaries Commssion on September 5th.

The methodolgy for the changes is all wrong says Mayor Colin Kinsley. "The Electoral Boundaries Commission says Prince George should have one MLA, yet, all of North Nechako, and the Hart Highlands will be part of another riding so it just doesn't make any sense."

Councilor Don Zurowski pointed out that while northern B.C. may only have 7% of the population, it encompasses 70% of the land mass.

Councilor Sherry Sethen says the rally set for the 5th of September is a time to show unity "It is a time for us to stand together as a community to how what we expect from our Province."

Council has also passed an official resoution to oppose the preliminary report of the Electoral Boundaries Commission.

The Electoral Boundaries Commission public consultation sessions will be underway at the Coast Inn of the North that same evening that the rally is set for the Civic Centre Square.

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