Dear Editor,
However you feel about the new Chéticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay riding (and there are lots of feelings!), this tiny riding gives us one very cool opportunity.
Whoever becomes our new MLA will have many fewer people (3,889 electors) to represent than any other MLA in Nova Scotia.
This means that, if you live in this new riding, your vote and the things that are important to you, suddenly carry more weight in our politicians’ minds than the votes and concerns of other Nova Scotians…20 times more, for example, than the votes, concerns, and values of a voter in Sackville-Bedford-Preston, where candidates for MLA have over 80,000 electors to try to connect with.
Let’s use this opportunity! Make sure your weighty vote makes it into the ballot box. Check out candidate events (there’s one in Margaree on June 14th and one in Cheticamp on June 15th), ask the candidates questions, and tell them what matters to you; you’ll see them everywhere this month!
Also, I humbly request that the Oran publish a clear map of the Chéticamp-Margarees-Pleasant Bay riding; some folks still aren’t sure whether or not they fall into the new electoral boundaries, especially around Egypt Road, Lake O’Law, Scotsville and Dunvegan.
Sincerely,
Moira Peters
Margaree Valley