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It'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 i
by stackghost 4mo ago
It'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