The legislation is in response to a ruling that said the Charter rights related to voting and the electoral representation of Acadians in northwestern Cape Breton were violated when the community wasn’t considered for protected riding status in 2019
A bill that would allow the Nova Scotia government to carve out a protected riding for the Acadian region of Chéticamp passed the committee stage Monday without changes, despite voter parity concerns raised by the Halifax Chamber of Commerce.
But Halifax chamber president Patrick Sullivan told the legislature’s law amendments committee that a full commission should be struck to look at representation across the province. His concern is that protected and rural ridings are composed of fewer voters than most other ridings in the province, especially around Halifax.
Chéticamp wasn’t included on the list, with a slim majority on the commission suggesting its population was too small to warrant its own electoral district. “The creation of a new district in Chéticamp could theoretically split the district of Inverness, at approximately 17,000 residents, into two further diluting the vote of Halifax residents regardless of the reasons for the change,” said Sullivan.
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