The Toronto paper's editorial can be summed up in the opening paragraph:
The contrast could not be starker. In federal by-elections last Monday, there were 120,864 eligible voters in the riding of Vaughan, just north of Toronto, and only 53,549 in Dauphin-Swan River-Marquette in rural Manitoba. That means the vote of a Vaughan resident counts for less than half of the ballot of a person living in the Manitoba riding.
This is some serious bullsh*t.
Look at PEI; there are more people in my building than in all of Prince Edward Island yet they get four seats in the House of Commons.
Rep by pop.
We could learn from the Damn Yankees and should. My proposal would be six Senators per province and then pure rep by population with a minimum of one MP per province.
WFDS
I could accept something like that. I don't think we should be making our House of Commons into an elected quasi-Senate.
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