Canada - The Land of Inequality

[sumdumguy]

Canada has 338 MP’s
Alberta has a population of 4.3 million with just 14 MP’s
While the Maritimes have a population of 1.89 million and they have 32 MP’s. Senators are stacked mile high by Liberals.

4.3/1.89 = 2.28 Therefore Alberta should have
73 MP’s

Saskatchewan should have 30, not 14.

[SmallTimeOperator]

You make a good point and I agree the West needs more MPs. But I also do not think representation by population #s is necessarily fair. Big geography with small population needs more representation in this country.

Using the Man/Ontario border as the centre of the country, and subtracting a few more seats off the total for the north, there should be equal amount of seats west and east of that line. For example, give the Yukon, NWT and Nunavut 6 seats instead of the current 3. Then 166 seats for Eastern Canada and 166 seats for Western Canada.

Large cities over a million people should only get 1 seat for every 500,000 of population.

So for the Greater Toronto area, Google search shows 7.1 million population and 57 MPs. Change that to 14 MPs, and spread some seats around the rural areas in all of Eastern Canada.

That would be more fair, than having voters in Toronto, Montreal and other big cities in the East decide what happens for policy in all of Canada.

[TSIPP]

Elections Canada makes it rigged election, those pricks are cheering for the liberals out east.

[blackpowder]

Ever more dysfunctional over time.
But I'm not crazy about the system fairvote.ca proposes either.
Don't know how bad it's gotta get to change anything. Nobody West of Winnipeg sees anything to change.

Our Westminster system wasn't modified for the geography after it was populated sufficiently. Colonial thinking kept power in hand with class. That same keeps republic talk heresy.
Churchill wrote of "the Dominions". We're still treating ourselves as such.

[fjlip]

We are NOT a country...

[grrrr]

Alberta has 37 mps

[sumdumguy]

Alberta has 37 mps

I apologize, I stand corrected, thanx grrr.

Alberta still should have 73 MP’s, almost double what Alberta has now.

So 36 more in Alberta
and 16 more in Saskatchewan
equals 52 more seats.
Carney is looking for one more seat to make a majority.

And I agree Rep by Pop gives the large cities the advantage, for sure. Couple that with the fact that some regions have almost no representation and we have Canada being governed by a handful of cities

[chuckChuck]

So you guys want to stack the house with more MPs in favour of Alberta and Saskatchewan? LOL

Good luck arguing that case!

Saskatchewan's ridings have much smaller populations than Ontario's so the electoral system already favours Saskatchewan!

[AlbertaFarmer5]

And why should electoral power be divided by population rather than actual economic output?

A million people all working for the government or retired or living on welfare should not have the same economic power as a million people creating actual exportable wealth.

In a country where one quarter of the population works for some level of government,, and boats for their own selfish interests, this is not an insignificant problem.

[foragefarmer]

And why should electoral power be divided by population rather than actual economic output?

A million people all working for the government or retired or living on welfare should not have the same economic power as a million people creating actual exportable wealth.

In a country where one quarter of the population works for some level of government,, and boats for their own selfish interests, this is not an insignificant problem.

So what's the cut off, one vote for every $100k net earned by a non government worker or business owner.

Do you net that much on your farm, who knows maybe you're binning your canola waiting for $53.00/ bu. and don't make the $100k net cut off the year of the election.

Do you also add a caveat that business or non government salary workers who do vote Liberal and make $100k net don't get to vote?

Sounds like your adding more layers of government.

Don't those who serve Canada in the armed forces get a government of Canada cheque? They can fight but don't get a vote?

So how many "boats" do you think at all levels of government are handed out every year to those with selfish interests working for the government?