Electoral Boundaries Commission To Get Back To Work

Saturday, December 08, 2007 04:52 AM

The B.C. Electoral Boundaries Commission is getting set to continue its work, now that Bill 39, which would have given the Commission the legal tools required to protect rural representation, has died.

Commission Chair, Justice Bruce Cohen says the Commission is prepared to continue its work "We will complete our mandate under the existing legislation.”

The public consultations will continue, with a public hearing set for January 22^nd in Quesnel.

The Preliminary Report which was released last August, proposed the removal of an electoral district in each of the North, Cariboo-Thompson and Columbia-Kootenay regions and the addition of an electoral district in the Okanagan, Fraser Valley, Surrey, Burnaby and Tri-Cities and Vancouver regions.

Justice Cohen says the Commission will submit any amendments to the Preliminary Report to the Speaker by February 15, “Once we have submitted any amendments to the Speaker, it will be up to the legislature to decide on our proposals."

The public is welcome to attend the hearings, and to comment on the Preliminary Report by email, written submission or telephone. Contact information is available on the Commission’s website at www.bc-ebc.ca

The Commission has also established a voice recorder at 1 877 660 1236 for those who wish to make an oral submission.

The Commission will accept submissions until January 23, 2008.

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Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on December 8 2007 7:21 AM

Wonder why the NDP wanted the northern and remote regions of the province to have less MLS's?

It must seem fair somehow to the NDP way of thinking. Who's is the NDP trying to get revenge on now and for what? To the NDP, politics was always more important than people.

Posted by: socredible on December 8 2007 8:55 AM

Because they want to 'represent' poverty, Yama. Not 'eliminate' it. And 'poverty', being primarily a 'financial' condition in BC, rather that a 'physical' one, can be maintained far easier in areas where fewer people can 'live off the land', so to speak. Like the major 'urban areas', where you always need 'money' to live.

Posted by: socredible on December 8 2007 8:57 AM

'Like' should've read 'unlike' in that last sentence. Sorry.

Posted by: ammonra on December 8 2007 9:37 AM

Don't be ridiculous, Yama, the NDP does not want fewer MLAs in the North. They opposed Campbell's instruction to the commission to create 8 new seats in Liberal strongholds.

Instead of a knee jerk anti-NDP stance, ask yourself what the Liberals are so afraid of that they have to tell the Boundaries Commission where to put new MLAs, and how many to put there.

Posted by: YamaDooPolCat on December 8 2007 9:51 AM

Whoa amad-oh-rama! Speaking of knee jerk, watch out you don't kick yourself!

Who gives an ats rass about the Liberals? I can pester any MLA of any strip, and I have. I just want to make sure we don't get ran over by the socialist hordes down in Moscover. We get enough of them telling us how we should live up north as it is. Them dilettantes are always coming up with something from "Save the Caribou" to stop buying big pick up trucks.

Posted by: socredible on December 8 2007 12:18 PM

Or a "Jobs and Timber Accord". As riduculous in its operation as Campbell's 'carbon credit' trading scheme is going to be.