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PAGE 18, THE HERALD, Tuesday, July 18, 1978

M.L.A. Unhappy At New Boundaries

Sees It As Obvious Gerrymandering

Report from the Legislative
Assembly

By William S, King, M.L.A.
(Revelstoke-Slocan)

Many residents of the
Revelstoke-Slocan riding are
disturbed, as [ am, at the
way the government has
handled the re-drawing of
electoral boundaries and the
particular effect of that
Tedistribution on our local
area.

In many ways, what has
happened to Revelstoke-
Slocan is lypical of all that is
wrong, _politically-inspired
and unfair in thé report of
Judge Lawrence Eckhardt,
the former Social Credit
candidate who was given the
job of making the boundary

changes.

Under the bill that turned
Eckhardl’s recom-
mendations into taw,

Revelstoke-Slocan no longer
exists, The southern sec-
tions of the riding -- including
Kaslo, the Lardeau region,
Nakusp and the Slocan
valley go to Nelson-Creston.
The Arrow Lakes south of
Nakusp will be in North

Okanagan. The City of
Revelstoke and the northern
portions of the former riding
have been broughtinto a new
riding called Shuswap-
Revelstoke which includes

Chase, Enderby, Salmon

Arm, Armstrong, Sicamous
and Falkland.

The new riding of
Shuswap-Revelstoke will
have a population of some
45,000 persons and is as large
as any urban riding in the
Lower Mainland. But unlike
such an urban riding, it is
geographically large
contains many scattered
communities and several
Municipal governments with
separate problems requiring
the attention of energies of
their M.L.A.

Clearly whoever put
together the new riding had
no concept of the work that
will be required by the
person who represents
Shuswap-Revelstoke in the
Legislature, Nor was he

‘much concerned with the

bonds that have been created
in the former riding over the
years.

The justification for doing
away with Revelstoke-
Slocan was that the riding,
with only 10,483 registered
voters in the last election,
was too small. That's fine
reasoning for a com-
missioner truly commited to
representation by
population. But the same
commissioner recom-
mended no change whatever
to the riding of Atlin in the
far -north-west of the
province with only 3,153
registered voters.

And what about Van-
couver-Burrard? This two-
member city riding of 49.834

registered voters in the last -

election, was also abolished
in redistribution and the
total number of seats for the
city of Vancouver, which has
long been under-represented
in terms of population, was
actually reduced from 12 to
10.

Making representation
more reflective of population
and the creation of ridings
that are economically or
culturally cohesive were not
part of the effort that went

into redistribution.

The effort that was made
was to help the Social Credit
Party at the expense of the
opposition parties, cutting
bits and pieces of NDP
Tidings and tacking them on
to Social Credit ridings and
vice-versa wherever the net
result was more seats for
Social Credit in the next
election, 7

The term that has been
used to describe this
manipulation is
gerrymandering, a crass
practise that got its name
and its infamy from one of
the unhappiest days of U.S.
politics.

. Now it has happened in
B.C. Will it succeed? Is it
poscible that the govern-
ment, unable to win support
from the publie through {ts
management skills and its
legislative programs, can
win re-election by tampering
with the election machinery?

The public, which is the
real victim of _ this
redistribution shame, will
have to answer those
questions.

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