FWIW the population of Canada is only 6x Singapore, so definitely bigger but not irreconcilably larger. I think one of the bigger things that makes Singapore s

FWIW the population of Canada is only 6x Singapore, so definitely bigger but not irreconcilably larger. I think one of the bigger things that makes Singapore so much easier to govern with consensus is the density. It's 5.7 million people packed onto a 30x20km island. There isn't much in the way of urban/rural divide or of different federal-level divisions having competing resource concerns, etc.