Changes might be coming for Kootenay Columbia and the rest of the BC Southern Interior. Notably for our riding, the new report moves Revelstoke and Golden into a new riding stretching from Kamloops to the Alberta border along Highway 1.
How will our Members of Parliament respond? What do our residents think? online forum. Richard Canning, MP from South Okanagan-West Kootenay boundary, shared his thoughts in the Kelowna website Castanet and more specifically about the West Kootenay changes in My Kootenay NoweJoin the discussion in our online forum. Richard Canning, MP from South Okanagan-West Kootenay boundary, shared his thoughts in the Kelowna website Castanet and more specifically about the West Kootenay changes in My Kootenay NowouQ( . As we hear more details about his objection in the House, we'll bring it back here to our members!uoQ( . As we hear more details about his objection in the House, we'll bring it back here to our members!online forum. Richard Canning, MP from South Okanagan-West Kootenay boundary, shared his thoughts in the Kelowna website Castanet and more specifically about the West Kootenay changes in My Kootenay Now (excerpt below). As we hear more details about his objection in the House, we'll bring it back here to our members.
South Okanagan-West Kootenay, which presently includes most of the West Kootenay plus all of the Boundary and parts of the Okanagan, would be reconfigured to take in the Similkameen and renamed Similkameen-West Kootenay.
The Slocan Valley and Arrow Lakes would be moved to a new riding called Vernon-Monashee that would also include portions of the central and north Okanagan.
The Beaver Valley and some rural areas around Castlegar including Tarrys, Thrums, and Brilliant would be moved to the East Kootenay riding, which already includes Nelson, Salmo, and Kaslo. Presently known as Kootenay-Columbia and represented by Conservative Rob Morrison, it would be renamed Columbia-Kootenay-Southern Rockies.
read more at My Kootenay Now
You can download the full commission Report below. To find more information on the next steps in the redistribution process, visit www.redistribution2022.ca.
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