RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:It was all political!TheWokeLemming wrote: An ignorant comment. Look at the percentage of seats the west gets in both the House of Commons and the Senate compared to population. Look at the history of this country, whether it was the CPR charging exorbitant freight fees with the approval of Ottawa, Daddy Trudeau's National Energy policy or the outright stealing of wealth through transfer payments. The cards have always been stacked in the favour of Bay Street and the Laurentian elite and they've done a great job of extracting wealth from the west for lining their own pockets. If you win all the seats in Toronto and Montreal, you basically form the government. Comments like yours just show how clueless many Canadians are.
JohnnyDoe wrote:
CalgaryTowers wrote: Conservatives won the popular vote in the last 2 elections. Sure we could have had better representation as in the staged water drinking Scheer. It was funny, on the campaign trail, whenever he was done talking, before taking any questions he would always take a drink out of the same glass, it looked far too routine. Then we had the hands together Otoole. Besides all this, they still brought us the popular vote. The problem is the system is rigged against the West. We don’t have enough MP’s for our population. It's designed to keep the West down. We need to adopt the far superior America system. Two voted in senators per province (not politically, essentially lifetime appointments) regardless of population and have the number of MP’s based strictly on the population of each province based on the latest census (Electoral College). Also the Bloc should not be a federal party. The leader clearly states he doesn’t want to run Canada, so why are you in a federal election? It should be a provincial not a federal party. Most of the Bloc votes would then I’m sure vote Conservative.
I don't think the system is necessarily tilted against the west. It is somewhat tilted towards Quebec. They have more seats than their population otherwise warrants
there's lots you can read about the electoral process. Representation is adjusted every 10 years. What do you consider "the west". Is that the Prairies or do you include BC? If you include BC, the west has as many seats as they have people. If you exclude BC, the west is over represented by a seat. Alberta and BC are underrepresented and Manitoba and Saskatchewan are over represented. You know who is the most underrepresented? Ontario. Ya Ontario has the most seats, it also has the most people. Your mistaken if you believe Ontario is over represented in parliament.
https://www.businesscouncilab.com/work/why-alberta-continues-to-be-under-represented-in-ottawa/
https://www.elections.ca/content.aspx?section=res&dir=cir/red/form&document=index&lang=e