Three of the Quad County’s provincial ridings will look a little different in the next election.
Attorney General and Justice Minister Mark Furey tabled changes in Province House intended to bring back four protected Acadian and African Canadian ridings.
It comes after a successful court challenge by Acadian groups when the ridings were dissolved by the previous provincial, NDP government.
Richmond is one of those francophone ridings; Cape Breton-Richmond is being reduced and renamed Richmond with new boundaries following Richmond Co. lines.
To accommodate the French language riding, Port Hawkesbury is returning to Inverness.
Guysborough-Eastern Shore-Tracadie is seeing changes as well; in the next election, the seat will be Guysborough-Tracadie, with a new boundary at the Guysborough-Halifax county line.
The house still needs to pass the amendments to the House of Assembly Act, but the court challenge all but mandated the changes; which will take effect in the next election.
