The four elected representatives of the region, Kristina Michaud, Maxime Blanchette-Joncas, Bernard Généreux and Diane Lebouthiller, have joined forces to demand the retention of the Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia constituency before the Federal Commission for Constituency Boundaries.
Under the proposed redistribution of elections, Est-du-Québec would go from four ridings to just three.
“We fear for the services offered to the population,” explains the MP for Avignon-La Mitis-Matane-Matapédia, Kristina Michaud. You know, home isn’t like the city, like Montreal, where you’ve got an MP’s office on one street corner, a Service Canada office on the other, and a Passport Canada office on the other; In the region we suffered one closure after another.”
It wouldn’t be the first time that eastern Quebec has lost its political clout.
In more than 50 years, the region has lost 3 horse farms and now risks losing a fourth, despite the vastness of the territory and growing needs.
The elected representatives are therefore asking the Commission to give the regions a special status so that they can retain their political weight.
Under current rules, Quebec will retain its 78 drives, but eastern Quebec would lose a drive to northern Montreal.
The new voting card will be announced in September and will come into effect in August 2024.
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