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Linus Van Pelt
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« on: April 02, 2010, 10:36:32 AM »

The Conservative government in Canada has introduced legislation to ensure equal representation for each province in the House of Commons, as opposed to the current system which has various grandfathering provisions that benefit slower-growing provinces at the expense of faster-growing provinces.

The media line seems to be that this would add 14 for Ontario, 4 for Alberta and 5 for B.C., though in typical media-innumerate fashion no-one seems to say whether this is what would have happened at the last reapportionment with the new formula or whether it's using projections for the 2011 census which will be the one before the legislation would take effect.

The Bloc will oppose; hopefully at least one (which is all that's needed) of the Liberals and NDP will support it, though this is no guarantee given the universal Canadian tendency for regional pandering.

PEI's 4 seats remain, since that's from a separate constitutional provision, as do the single member for each territory and the allowance that large northern districts within provinces can be a bit lower in population that the provincial average.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2010/04/01/seat-distribution-house-commons.html
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