85 is Enough

Times editor Frank Bucholtz writes today that 85 seats in the Legislature is plenty:

Court rulings have forced recent electoral boundary redistribution efforts to try and make each riding roughly equal in population. This is patently absurd when ridings that take up to one-sixth of the province are deemed too small (in population). It is obvious that a riding that size is more than enough for an MLA to handle.

The government needs to bring in legislation that will allow smaller population counts in the largest and most remote ridings. Very few B.C. residents who truly understand the vastness of this province will object, even if a few lawyers and do-gooders try to challenge such a law.

However, let`s try and limit the legislature to 85 MLAs. That`s more than enough.