If Alberta is X% amount of the population they should have X% amount of parliament seats. Right now parliament screws over Alberta, Vancouver, and the GTA in favour of the other provinces. Those 3 regions are underrepresented.
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Canada PoliERA |OT 2| Time Is a Flat Circle
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If Alberta is X% amount of the population they should have X% amount of parliament seats. Right now parliament screws over Alberta, Vancouver, and the GTA in favour of the other provinces. Those 3 regions are underrepresented.
Won't be for 4 minimum.
Also fuck a Scheer!
Canada didn't go that stupid maga racist path that our Southern neighboors did man I'm so happy to be living in this country.
Scheer can fuck off back to Merica
Yeah exactly. There is some disagreement on what the numbers will be, but because it's based on % of pop, not absolute numbers, it's likely that Alberta and BC will gain, and the rest will stay close to the same since those two provinces are growing faster.
I don't believe you capitalize after a comma, but I could be mistaken. How do you figure that ain't is a verb? It's a contraction of "am not."
It's not dumb. Since in our system the House of Commons is effectively the only chamber that matters, it's about insuring that all provinces have some minimal level of presence in it. The initial move to create a floor through which no province could fall in terms of MPs came after PEI lost 2 of its original 6 members in the decades after Confederation, and was about to lose a third; hence the rule that no province could have fewer MPs than it had senators.
No province has lost seats in redistricting in many, many years, and that won't happen next time either. They'll add more seats to the House again.
Alberta would still complain about it.
PST isn't the Alberta way, own goals are.
It's always good to learn new things!
See? Exactly!
...This conversation is comically off-topic.
NDP gets Hudson Bay, rip.
This is also like the worst of the American Senate combined with FPTP. lol
I won the Electoral College quite handily, not easy but it was an incredible victory.
covfefe
I feel bad for being ignorant of how the government in the NWT selects is cabinet, but it is by consensus since there are no parties and the elected MLAs select the cabinet by secret ballot amongst itself:
5 of 7 members of cabinet, including the premier, are women.
5 of 7 members of cabinet, including the premier, are women.
Pretty big day in BC.
NDP MP Romeo Saganash passed a bill that would have had the same impact Federally, but it was held up in the Senate by shenanigans and it died. I'd expect the NDP will try again to pass another bill this upcoming parliament. (I believe the Liberals also promised this)
I thought this commentary was interesting. I think there's many politicians in Canada that would not say this, or at least they would not venture this sort of statement on their own initiative. Twitter thread worth a read.
NDP MP Romeo Saganash passed a bill that would have had the same impact Federally, but it was held up in the Senate by shenanigans and it died. I'd expect the NDP will try again to pass another bill this upcoming parliament. (I believe the Liberals also promised this)
I thought this commentary was interesting. I think there's many politicians in Canada that would not say this, or at least they would not venture this sort of statement on their own initiative. Twitter thread worth a read.
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New thread! Exciting.
Big changes for the Greens coming before next election:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/green-party-priorities-letter-trudeau-1.5333869
Big changes for the Greens coming before next election:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/green-party-priorities-letter-trudeau-1.5333869
lmao I had to check if that was Beaverton or not 'cause I wasn't sure....
I think we all pretty much called this in the old thread. You could tell that May was waiting until she had some backup in some safer seats before she passed on the torch.
It will be a shame though. While she does hold some controvercial and soundbyte worthy views both in past and present. She performed phenominally in the debates and it'll suck not having her there to call out everyone else for their lies and games on national TV.
I'd be in favour of alberta getting more if vancouver and the gta also got more
CBC's the National made a puff piece asking Albertans what do they want.
jeez, the media is so dumb. Going along with this bullshit
jeez, the media is so dumb. Going along with this bullshit
looks like they found their new leader in Fredirecton
honest question. How long does Canada remain indigenous land? Until it matches the ~18,000 years people have lived here? I completely support helping repair some of the shit aboriginal people have dealt with (I hope that support goes to groups that need it most, not rich ass ones like the Squamish band) but the amount of stuff I deal with at work that has to be prefaced with "and we do this on unseeded aboriginal land of the X people" followed by some indigenous language prayer always feels very odd to me. I just wonder what the end game is. Does it get to a point where aboriginal Canadians are socio-economically at par with other Canadians and it just fades away?
what's funny is that my riding is one of the few Quebec ridings where the Bloc dropped in vote share this election 2019 compared to 2015
Here's another possibility coming from the opposite angle: does it get to the point where land returns and Canada, understood as a Westphalian nation state, dissolves into an assemblage of all of us?
Delacourt i typically consider a conservative commentator for the Star. She's often associated with the likes of John Ivison and various other CTV commentators. She's no Chantal Hebert.
Also. Notley giving no free pass to Singh.
Reporting in from Saskatchewan. Mood: feelasbadman. Lost my NDP rep, who actually got more votes than she did in 2015, but still lost anyway because there were so many Lib -> Con voters.
Surely the sort of person who would bother voting Liberal in Saskatchewan isn't going to switch to the Cons? I'd sooner guess it was more Cons motivated to get out and vote.
2015:
NDP - 14,921
CPC - 12,401
LPC - 9,234
2019:
NDP - 15,270 (+349)
CPC - 18,406 (+6005)
LPC - 2,763 (-6471)
Turnout was almost identical, but there's nearly a 1:1 bleed from LCP to CPC.
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Every party dd oppo this time around so /shrug.
Considering the Sasketchewan party, I assume that it's very likely they would share the same voter pool (not that they wouldn't anyway based on policy).
Scheer's campaign during the election proved that absolutely nobody should trust him about anything.
Also, apparently he wants to do what Harper did. We'll see if the party will actually keep him or not:
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Scheer Lion: "Look, the big fangs, the claws, the fact that I can only eat meat, none of that matters. A carnivore whose viewpoints on herbivores is that they should all be devoured, can be king of the jungle, and the herbivores should be able to trust me to not govern based on my natural carnivorous instincts. Vote for me, I promise I won't eat you!"
"I pinky promise not to eat you!"
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Scheer Lion: "Look, the big fangs, the claws, the fact that I can only eat meat, none of that matters. A carnivore who's viewpoints on herbivores is that they should all be devoured, can be king of the jungle, and the herbivores should be able to trust me to not govern based on my natural carnivorous instincts. Vote for me, I promise I won't eat you!"
"I pinky promise not to eat you!"
LMAO! That's very good.
English Canada are really eating up Scheer's lies and regionalism bullshit