Local municipalities are being asked to join in opposition to proposed new riding boundaries that would cut out a portion of Renfrew County.
The township of Greater Madawaska (Calabogie and area) says it “strongly opposes” new federal election boundaries proposed by the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for Ontario.
The commission is redrawing the riding map of Ontario to account for changes in demographics recorded in the 2021 Census.
In redrawing the riding map, the commission was aiming for an average population “quota” of 116,590 people per riding.
The commission says that based on the census data, the long-time current riding of Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke has a population of 107,420, or 7.9 per cent below “quota.”
Instead, the commission has proposed a new riding to be known as Algonquin-Renfrew-Pembroke (above) that would include parts of west Ottawa north of the 417, including villages like Fitzroy Harbour, Kinburn and Dunrobin.
The population of the new riding would be 116,900, or 0.3 per cent above quota.
To help balance things out, however, the new riding would cut out Greater Madawaska and add the townships to the riding of Lanark-Frontenac…
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