Canada Federal Representation 2024

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PROV	PR	2021 Population	Seats	Quota	Gini	Rank	L-H	Rank
NL	10	510,550	7	72,936	0.1134	10	0.0906	10
PE	11	154,331	4	38,583	0.0077	1	0.0057	1
NS	12	969,383	11	88,126	0.0688	7	0.0596	9
NB	13	775,610	10	77,561	0.0724	9	0.0545	8
QC	24	8,501,833	78	108,998	0.0325	5	0.0238	5
ON	35	14,223,942	122	116,590	0.0458	6	0.0321	6
MB	46	1,342,153	14	95,868	0.0241	3	0.0176	4
SK	47	1,132,505	14	80,893	0.0699	8	0.0544	7
AB	48	4,262,635	37	115,206	0.0223	2	0.0154	2
BC	59	5,000,879	43	116,300	0.0243	4	0.0160	3

Provinces east of Ontario (QC, NB, NS, PE, NL): 10,911,707 people; 110 seats
Provinces west of Ontario (BC, AB, SK, MB): 11,738,172 people; 108 seats

How is that meant to be remotely fair?

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Canada has laws in place to ensure 'fair' representation for people living in smaller provinces or hard to reach areas.

That doesn't explain Quebec's overrepresentation compared to Alberta and BC despite being larger, though.