Split city: Some B.C. voters don’t feel represented as urban centres carved into sprawling, rural ridings [Video]

When Paul Sanborn started researching the upcoming federal election, he was dismayed to learn he had been moved into a new electoral riding to which he feels very little connection — and which he worries will fail to represent his views.

The Prince George, B.C. resident had previously been on the northern edge of Cariboo-Prince George, which extends roughly 300 kilometres south to just past the community of 100 Mile House.

But as part of a redistribution process, he had now been moved into the southwest corner of the Prince George-Peace River-Northern Rockies riding, which extends roughly 250 kilometers southeast to the Alberta border and more than 600 kilometers north up to the Yukon and Northwest Territories, passing through the communities of Dawson Creek, Fort St. John and Fort Nelson. 

“Maybe I was just being a bit grumpy but, you know, it just seems odd that we [the city of Prince George] keep getting sliced …