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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
It doesn't make sense to make ridings so big that they end up straddling geographical and economic areas where the people may have much different concerns. If my town is a logging town, but the majority of the riding is agricultural and MP is catering to that base, it is not meaningful representation.
There needs to be a comprise between population and what is practical enough to serve the needs of the people in the riding.
And it isn't always a choice for people to live in remote areas. Sometimes they were just born there and didn't have the financial or educational opportunities to move. There is industry in remote areas and we need people to live there. I mean really, most people don't love to live there, but it's all they know.
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I'm in East Vancouver, it also has vastly differnent political needs and groups within it, we all have to just suck it up, I dont have much of anything in common with South East Asian immigrants but if they make up the largest voting bloc in my riding thats my problem, while the poor schmoes on the downtown eastside have their own needs and are just as stuck there