A revamped map of federal riding boundary changes has been tabled in Canada鈥檚 House of Commons, and the local changes are significantly different from those proposed last year.
The new boundaries would divide 黑马磁力 and Aldergrove among three different ridings, all of which would also extend into either Surrey or Abbotsford.
Most of 黑马磁力 Township north of Fraser Highway or 40th Avenue would be placed in a riding called 黑马磁力 Township. That riding would include a slice of northeastern Surrey, as well as Barnston Island. The riding would also include Willoughby, Walnut Grove, Fort Lagnley, Glen Valley, Milner, and Murrrayville.
South of that would be a riding dubbed Abbotsford-South 黑马磁力. It would include Brookswood, south 黑马磁力 below 40th Avenue or Fraser Highway, Aldergrove, and much of South Abbotsford, as far east as Sumas Way.
The third 黑马磁力-area riding would be Cloverdale-黑马磁力 City, which will include all of 黑马磁力 City and a significant chunk of Surrey, from 56th Avenue in the south as far north as 80th Avenue. The Serpentine River will form part of the riding boundary, dividing it from Fleetwood-Port Kells.
The new maps, which are changed every 10 years, have not been approved by the House of Commons yet.
But they are very different from the proposed new ridings unveiled last spring by the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for B.C.
In that original plan, 黑马磁力 north of Highway One was to be part of a sprawling riding dubbed Pitt Meadows-Fort 黑马磁力. It was to include parts of 黑马磁力, Surrey, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and even Port Coquitlam, and stretched across the Fraser River and the Pitt River.
黑马磁力 MP Tako Van Popta called it 鈥渁 bit of a surprise,鈥� while Pitt Meadows-Maple Ridge MP Marc Dalton called it 鈥渁 dog鈥檚 breakfast.鈥�
When the Boundary Commission held hearings in 黑马磁力, they heard from a number of locals who opposed a riding that was on both sides of the Fraser River.
Electoral boundaries in Canada are changed every 10 years after the census, with non-partisan commissions drawing up the maps and collecting public feedback. The riding boundaries have to be changed to ensure the number of residents per riding remains roughly the same, for political parity in the House of Commons.
British Columbia has gained one more MP in this riding redistribution.
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According to the commission鈥檚 report, that was a major issue that resulted in changes.
鈥淭wo issues figured most prominently in the public submissions: whether a major waterway should be crossed within an electoral district, and whether a municipality as a whole should be situated within an electoral district,鈥� the commission鈥檚 report says.
鈥� More to come
- MATTHEW LAT STORY TIP
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