So how do you make the numbers work? Try to take Powell River back, and try to assemble enough communities to make three North Shore ridings?
Obviously if the population meets the needs of three ridings on the North Shore, there is no need to cross Burrard Inlet.
But I actually dunno.
1. Perhaps add Pemberton and environs back into the West Van riding with a combined population of roughly just over 5,260, which population has a community interest with Whistler, Squamish, Vancouver as it is situate on the western side of the coastal mountains?
BTW, the Duffy Lake Road through to the Fraser Canyon side (arid Lillooet and Lytton) is just a paved and glorified logging road, which steeply ascends and descends with numerous mountain switchbacks that only the hardy tourist utilizes.
But then what about the new Chilliwack riding? It is now proposed to go waaaaaay up north to 100 Mile House in the Cariboo/Chilcotin region. People are not happy about that up there! With Pemberton and environs taken out, then will the proposed Chilliwack riding boundaries need to be extended even further north?
2. If Powell River is brought back into the West Van riding, how does it affect all of the new boundaries on Vancouver Island?
Seems like a house of cards.
I dunno. If I had access to all of the cartography and materials that the commission has, I would 'hope' to find some solution. But I don't have that information at my fingertips.