At Monday’s Town Council meeting a resolution was unanimously passed to submit a statement against the proposed redistribution of federal ridings in northern
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A new electoral map is in the works by the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario that could bring revisions to the region pending public hearings slated for this fall.
The electoral boundary commission has released a new proposal to redraw lines across federal electoral districts. The changes would lead to a decrease in federal ridings in the north down from ten to nine.