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From: ead@tmsoft.uucp (Elizabeth Doucette)
Newsgroups: can.general
Subject: Re: Canada: one or two cultures?
Message-ID: <1989Jul28.003559.25233@tmsoft.uucp>
Date: 28 Jul 89 00:35:59 GMT
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In article <1989Jul27.131633.14903@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> jdd@db.toronto.edu
(John DiMarco) writes:
>ead@tmsoft.uucp (Elizabeth Doucette) writes:
>
>>                        Federally, each province doesn't get
>>an equal vote.  The same number of MP's should come from each
>>province.  Then you would see some changes. 
>
>Yep. Things would change, alright. For one, I'd move to PEI! :-)
>
>Quite frankly, if the same number of MP's came from each province, residents
>of less populous provinces (PEI, for example) would have much more clout
>than residents of more populous provinces. 

No they wouldn't.  The residents would have the same clout.  The only
difference is that in one province there might be 0.5 million people
voting for 1 M.P. and in the other province there might be 50,000
people voting for 1 M.P.  The difference comes in the amount of work
that each M.P. would have to do, for example, if each M.P. were to try
to talk to each voter.
 
>
>The reason why central Canada (Ontario, Quebec) has so much influence in 
>Federal politics is that most of Canada's population is there. 
>

Of course that's the reason.  But that doesn't mean that the Atlantic
provinces and the Western provinces, like the provinces of Ontario and
Quebec determining what's going to happen to the whole country.  And
you can bet that Ontario and Quebec want to hang onto that power.  I
think it should be taken away from them.
 
>John


Elizabeth