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This is not a column about a carbon tax, a carbon levy or a carbon price.

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Instead, it’s a column about an important issue that has been largely overlooked this week.

Allow me to introduce the most influential group of people you have never heard of – the members of Alberta’s newly constituted Electoral Boundaries Commission.

It will be their job in the next year to redraw the boundaries of Alberta’s 87 ridings to better reflect the province’s changing population since the last time the boundaries were drawn in 2010.

In other words, they will determine where you’ll cast your ballot next election and that could have a real impact on the outcome of the vote.

The commission has five members, with the chair and two members named by the government and two members named by the opposition.

The chair is Justice Myra Bielby, a Court of Appeal judge.

The two members named by the government are Bruce McLeod, former mayor of Acme, and Jean Munn, a lawyer in Calgary (and one-time NDP candidate).