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3 facts you need to know
About rural political power
By Bill Bennett, Kootenay East MLA
1. The BC Government has introduced legislation to change the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act so that there will be no loss of rural seats in the Kootenays, the Cariboo-Thompson and the North.
2. The Act requires that every second election a Commission is set up to assess provincial electoral boundaries. This typically results in the loss of rural constituencies. The last Commission in 2006 stated there would be no way to avoid the loss of rural seats in 2014 unless the Act is changed.
3. Although the NDP are speaking against this important change, the BC Liberal majority will pass the legislation that will prevent the loss of 17 rural seats and will prevent the addition of anymore than the existing 85 seats in the BC Legislature.
