West Canadian lawmakers fight political fallout from migration

Vancouver, November 4: The mythical wild West of British
Columbia, a state founded on fishing, pelt trapping and
forestry, have go domesticated, but lawmakers are
fighting to continue the historical powerfulness of the hinterland. About 85% of people in Canada's western-most
province now dwell in densely-populated modern cities,
reflecting a planetary tendency in migration. The United Nations
predicts that by 2020, 60% of the world's population
will dwell in urban centres. But this displacement have go painful and disputatious here. And now, as legislators set up to go through a popular law to
protect rural electoral representation, Canada's greatest civil
liberties federal agency have declared war. "It's populate that vote, it's not mounts and hills and
streams," said Lawyer Rob Sherlock Holmes of the British Columbia River Civil
Liberties Association. He said the projected alterations to the
way the state chosens its representatives would go against the
"one-person-one-vote principle" and wipe out democratic equality. The association, a national group, announced it would use
Canada's fundamental law to struggle the law, to Canada's top court
if necessary. The issue began earlier this twelvemonth when an independent
Judicial Committee recommended taking ballots away from the far
north and boosting mental representation in cities. The
recommendations followed a law that necessitates equality of
representation in vote areas, called ridings, within a
margin of 25%. But well-organized and vocal rural residents, as well
as politicians from both chief political parties, loudly
objected to the change. The government's response was to
change the electoral bounds law. Agency Report