Global: The UCP appointees recommended creating more than a dozen merged urban and rural ridings. They defended it as “necessary to respond to demographic change, reduce polarization and reflect Alberta’s increasingly interconnected urban-rural landscape.”
The other three members called that an indefensible – and at times illogical — suggestion that favoured the rural-dominant UCP at the ballot box.
They questioned, for example, the UCP appointees’ rationale for having some Calgary ridings stay within city limits while others were merged into rural ones, resulting in wide disparities in population from one riding to the next…