tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post8865439975968414718..comments2024-03-22T03:33:16.945-04:00Comments on Canadian Election Atlas: B.C. federal riding boundary proposal analysis part 1 (Vancouver Island)Earl A. Washburnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06487571623276436603noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post-26803919598842152512012-07-12T15:35:19.965-04:002012-07-12T15:35:19.965-04:00Sounds like your proposal would anger Elizabeth Ma...Sounds like your proposal would anger Elizabeth May to no end. I think her people really tried their best to influence the commission, but that is just my speculation. I think now keeping Powell River in the North Island riding may not be such a bad idea if it means avoiding the Burnaby-Seymour riding (move Whistler and Squamish out of West Van so it can move over into North Van, and have North Van keep the Seymour area.Earl A. Washburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487571623276436603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post-70855687368038438202012-07-09T03:33:22.088-04:002012-07-09T03:33:22.088-04:00These suggestions make a lot of sense, especially ...These suggestions make a lot of sense, especially the idea of making three ridings in the CRD and avoiding the Malahat-crossing Juan de Fuca to North Cowichan riding. It also makes a lot more sense to put the Gulf Islands with Duncan (remember Nanaimo-Cowichan and the Islands?) than to put them with Saanich, even if that's not how the main ferry connections run. And why does Saanich-Gulf Islands extend anywhere south of Mackenzie -- because the Cedar Hill Golf Course is green space?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post-72367589340076908432012-07-06T14:34:39.841-04:002012-07-06T14:34:39.841-04:00This redistribution in the Victoria is problematic...This redistribution in the Victoria is problematic because it divides both of the major municipalities between ridings.<br /><br />Since 1871 the City of Victoria has never been split between two ridings, this is a first and I do not see it as something beneficial.<br /><br />Saanich has enough people to fill riding but it split into three, this is not right.<br /><br />The areas of Saanich in Victoria should be moved to a Saanich riding. You could then create a Victoria riding with Oak Bay, a Saanich only one and a Westshore one with all five westshore local governments and Esquimalt.<br /><br />Sidney, North Saanich, Central Saanich and the Gulf Islands could be with Cowichan - this has happened in the past. It is also no more odd than South Cowichan-Juan de Fuca.<br /><br />It also means the other three ridings in the CRD make the most sense.<br /><br />As to Powell River, it gets to bounce back and forth between ridings again. It could remain with the current riding where it is though add Pemberton to it and remove the majority of West Van.<br /><br />Removing Powell River would allow the boundaries in the Comox Valley to be more rational than they are now. I have trouble imagining a worse boundary than the one they choseBernardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15951619465188564252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post-62477624312800269942012-07-05T11:42:21.154-04:002012-07-05T11:42:21.154-04:00Good stuff! Great blog by the way. Interesting to ...Good stuff! Great blog by the way. Interesting to see the Fredericton numbers.Earl A. Washburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487571623276436603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post-20226747566526499532012-07-01T10:29:57.935-04:002012-07-01T10:29:57.935-04:00Earl,
Good job on these riding boundary updates, a...Earl,<br />Good job on these riding boundary updates, and on your blog in general! I'll be checking back here for more. If you're curious, I made a rough calculation of how the proposed New Brunswick ridings would have gone based on the 2011 results. I'll be posting them soon here: http://junkiepolitico.wordpress.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post-36067787743071041492012-06-30T14:08:20.445-04:002012-06-30T14:08:20.445-04:00Expand further into the mainland? And give Vancouv...Expand further into the mainland? And give Vancouver Island ridings even more people? That wouldn't work at all. I see your point of having Powell River in with Vancouver Island, but it's not necessitated by population. And just because it was done historically, doesn't mean it's okay. Ideally none of Vancouver Island North would be on the mainland. <br /><br />Speaking of "Comox-Powell River", that wouldn't be a bad name for the riding either (for historical reasons).Earl A. Washburnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06487571623276436603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5190378770423658202.post-6909175797226960122012-06-30T13:12:16.203-04:002012-06-30T13:12:16.203-04:00Here is another idea. I see your point about havin...Here is another idea. I see your point about having Powell River and a piece of the west coast of the mainland in the north Vancouver Island riding...but there is a long history of there being a riding that combined northern Vancouver Island with the coast (remember the riding of Comox-Powell River that was there from the 1970s up to the 90s)? <br /><br />What I think is really nuts is taking the whole sunshine coast that is full of loggers and fishermen etc...and putting them in the same riding with West Vancouver and Whistler - which is all filthy rich monster homes and lots of ostentatious new money etc...Why can't they take ALL of the sunshine coast away from the West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky highway riding and then move the boundaries of that riding east to take in a chunk of North Vancouver and then North vancouver can move east and take in the chunk that was going to be merged with Burnaby?<br /><br />If you take the entire Sunshine Coast and add it to North Vancouver Island minus the half of Courtenay that would then be given to Nanaimo-Alberni - you would have a nice NDP-friendly riding that would essentially be composed of the two provincial ridings of Powell-River-Sunshine Coast and North Island.DLhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11587165866597795302noreply@blogger.com