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Red Deer mayor questions new electoral boundaries
The mayor says the change would place Westerner Park and the city’s Waste Management Facility in a new riding, forcing Red Deer to deal with another MLA.
Red Deer Mayor Cindy Jefferies questions why Westerner Park would not be in a Red Deer riding under new electoral boundaries released by the UCP on Nov. 2. Jefferies is somewhat relieved that the city was not carved up into four hybrid urban-rural ridings as was floated in an earlier minority report of the Electoral Boundaries Commission released in March. However, while Red Deer-North and Red Deer-South ridings remain, Westerner Park and the ci…