Planned meeting over electoral boundaries ‘inappropriate’: opposition
Posted Jun 2, 2012 07:55:53 AM.
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Nova Scotia’s opposition parties aren’t happy about a private meeting set up over the electoral boundaries report.
The province’s attorney general has announced he’ll have a one-on-one meeting with the chair of the commission that reviewed the province’s electoral districts.
A release from Ross Landry states the commission’s final report has to meet the terms of reference that were set out by the House of Assembly.
Those terms recommended eliminating protection for four underpopulated “protected” constituencies that contain large francophone and black communities.
But chairwoman Teresa MacNeil says the majority of commissioners weren’t comfortable with eliminating the minority group ridings.
Both opposition parties have issued releases saying the attorney general has no business meeting in private with the commission chair to discuss his concerns, calling it interference with an independent body.
