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3 from Ontario and 4 from Quebec. As a western Canada resident it has been real old that we have been steamrolled by the east for the past decade.
by __turbobrew__ 4mo ago
3 from Ontario and 4 from Quebec. As a western Canada resident it has been real old that we have been steamrolled by the east for the past decade.
- stackghost 4mo agoIt's the tyranny of the majority. Ontario and Quebec together are like 65% of Canadians. I'm in BC and have made my peace with that. I would imagine people in PEI feel a similar way. Probably people living in Hope or Quesnel also feel similar about being steamrolled by Metro Vancouver and Victoria.
- badc0ffee 4mo agoPEI gets 4 seats in the House of Commons.
- stackghost 4mo agoRight, and even with those extra two seats from the Senatorial clause, they only get 4. Ontario the juggernaut gets 122.
- SkyeCA 4mo agoAs required by law.
- soperj 4mo agoThe eastern provinces and Quebec are actually over represented. That means there's even less of a chance for the west.
- stackghost 4mo agoSaskatchewan and Manitoba are also over-represented. BC, Alberta, and Ontario are under-represented. Ontario, for example, is about 39% of the population of the provinces, but only 36% or so of the seats. The allocation is an imperfect formula, to be sure. I doubt it makes much of a difference in practice, except as propaganda fuel for foreign influence operations driving Alberta separatism. The degree to which most provinces are under- or over-represented is less than 1%.
- __turbobrew__ 4mo agoI get that Quebec and Ontario have 65% of the population, but why do they have 100% of the seats on a committee that shoves surveillance and gun bans down everyone else’s throats?
- stackghost 4mo agoNot a clue, but if there are only 7 seats then all 10 provinces can't be represented anyway. I highly doubt political opinions about surveillance are aligned with provincial borders.
- newsclues 4mo agoBecause the laurentian elite rule Canada and the liberal party is the political arm of the power corporation
- cik 4mo agoThe last time I remember feeling that I had representation, as a Western Canadian was 3 Prim Ministers ago. I didn't even vote for Harper, but the others simply ignored the gulf between Regina and the Okanagan. It doesn't get better once you move to Ontario. You then realize that your MPs also don't represent you, but at least they're in government now.
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- k12sosse 4mo agoGotta have security clearance to be on the committee I suppose