The Morris constituency will likely see some major changes during the next provincial election in 2020.

Proposed new electoral boundaries for the constituency of MorrisAccording to Electoral Divisions Act, boundaries are reviewed every 10 years by a non-partisan commission to make the necessary adjustments to electoral boundaries in an effort to accurately reflect changes to Manitoba's population.

The Act requires the Commission to base its review on the Statistics Canada 2016 Census population for Manitoba. This total 1,278,365 is divided by 57 which is the total number of provincial electoral divisions in the province. That provides a quotient for each electoral division of approximately 22,427 people per constituency.

Based on the 2016 census data, the Morris constituency was about 20 percent above that number.

"Obviously they needed to look at the boundaries and rejig them in order to make sure that we were close to that magic number. So, we actually had to shed a large population base," said Martin.

Part of the population base that would be shed includes the community of Niverville on the eastern side, which is the largest urban community in Morris constituency with a population of just over 4,000.

To compensate for that loss the Commission is proposing to push the borders of the riding further west past Elm Creek to include the St. Claude area, and further south along the Highway 75 corridor to include St. Jean Baptiste and Letellier in the Rural Municipality of Montcalm.

Martin is not overly concerned by what's being proposed.

"If I spent my time worrying about boundaries, I wouldn't be doing the job that I was elected to do. My job right now is to make sure I'm representing the constituents of Morris as it exists today and I'll worry about the election and the electoral boundaries when it's appropriate which won't be for another two years."