Leaders in South Vancouver’s Punjabi Market are concerned that proposed changes to the federal electoral boundaries of the neighbourhood ignore decades of history and will dilute the political representation of Vancouver’s South Asian community.
New boundaries proposed by the federal electoral boundaries commission of B.C. effectively split the decades-old South Asian community in half, separating two community pillars: the Punjabi Market, North America’s first South Asian cultural market, and the Khalsa Diwan Society Gurdwara , one the community’s most important spaces.Start your day with a roundup of B.C.-focused news and opinion delivered straight to your inbox at 7 a.m., Monday to Friday.
“When you split up a community like this, there’s a risk that power diminishes a little bit, that capacity to advocate on behalf of the community diminishes,” Nanda said. The Punjabi Market would straddle the corner of two ridings, Vancouver Arbutus and Vancouver Kingsway, while the gurdwara would be located in the riding of Vancouver Fraserview–South Burnaby.The electoral commission’s report is currently under review in Parliament, where MPs have until June to file objections. Nanda said the collective has reached out to Liberal Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan, the current MP for Vancouver South, but have heard “nothing concrete.
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