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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Well, of course you would. From that reading it gives each state/province equal number of Senators. Therefore Albertans would have far, far more Senators/person than the people of Ontario. Much less PEI, which might have 1 Senator per constituant.
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Um, you do realize that we already have a senate allotment that gives an equal number or senators to each region of the country, right? To implement a system similar to australia's, we wouldn't need to change the number of senators per region (although we could). Either way, I think that the exact number per region is far less important than how those senators are elected. I'd rather see a small number of elected Albertan senators than a large number of appointed senators.
The two things that I think are useful in the australian system are the allotment of power between the two houses, and the single transferrable vote system. Make those two changes to our system, and it instantly becomes a more useful political body.