DELIMITATION of constituencies is one of those exercises that sounds too technical for the participation of ordinary citizens, until you think deeply about what it really means: who gets represented, who gets heard and who becomes “too far” from public service. If you redraw constituencies in a careless, secretive or segregative way, boundaries are not the only thing you change. You actually change the politics, the balance of power, and the public’s trust in elections. That is why the Commission’s decision to hold district stakeholder meetings and to collect provincial submissions before publishing the names and boundaries of new constituencies in the Government Gazette is a progressive approach. This roadmap, we believe, will helps calm nerves. When Bill 10 was...