I 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?
replyThe eastern provinces and Quebec are actually over represented. That means there's even less of a chance for the west.
replySaskatchewan and Manitoba are also over-represented.
replyBC, 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%.
PEI gets 4 seats in the House of Commons.
replyRight, and even with those extra two seats from the Senatorial clause, they only get 4. Ontario the juggernaut gets 122.
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