The provincial NDP caucus has only four MLAs from outside of the Vancouver Island and Lower Mainland regions.

That poses the question of how Interior civic levels of government influence Vancouver-centric politicians about issues facing their communities.

The Okanagan Basin Water Board discussed that issue at its Tuesday board meeting, about how to educate and work with the new government in a non-partisan way.

One upcoming key event promises to be the annual Union of B.C. Municipalities convention next month, when civic elected officials from across the province have the opportunity to meet the NDP cabinet ministers and Premier John Horgan.

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The board discussion acknowledged that the new cabinet ministers will be overwhelmed by the challenges of inaugurating a new government and addressing concerns in regions of the province they may be unfamiliar with and lacking in local NDP representation.

All four MLAs from outside Metro Vancouver and Vancouver Island were chosen for cabinet posts, two from the Kootenays and two from northern B.C.

A key cabinet portfolio for the water board will be Stikine MLA Doug Donaldson, who takes over the cabinet post of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural development, a ministry under the Liberals which was headed up by Kelowna-Mission MLA Steve Thomson.

Findlater, mayor of West Kelowna, said the water board will be at a disadvantage from the outset because of the geography base of the new NDP cabinet.

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Norm Letnick, the Liberal MLA for Kelowna-Lake Country and the agriculture minister in the Liberal government, said he and his Liberal MLA counterpart Thomson, are taking steps to keep lines of communication open with the new government.

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Letnick said beyond the theatrics of the question period in the legislature, most of the real policy work takes place in the ministry offices and hallways through direct communication and advocacy efforts.

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