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Square Kilometre Dept: More than 40 per cent of Canada’s 308 ridings have population densities of fewer than 150 people per square kilometre, the definition of rural used by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, according to Globe And Mail. Keith Neuman, vice-president at Environics Research, said the differences between rural and urban Canadians are not as pronounced as many assume. Surveys show their attitudes on most issues to be almost indistinguishable, with a few exceptions and the question all parties are trying to answer is how best to target the rural voter. Rural issues tend to get short shrift in election coverage, but they hold a potentially significant payoff. Twenty per cent of those seats are close enough to qualify as targets for one party or another. As reported in the news.
@t population densities, short shrift