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Originally Posted by blankall
Just doing some math.
Population Quebec/Canada:
8 million/34.65 = 23.09%
Seats in House of Commons, Quebec/Canada:
75/308 = 24.35%
Doesn't really seem like as big of an imbalance as people are making it out to be (2-3 seats). The bigger imbalance probably exists around provinces with very small populations, such as PEI.
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This is actually correct. In the current 308-seat parliament, Quebec is the closest of all provinces to having the perfect number of MPs if seats were truly divided on a "representation by population" basis. Ontario, Alberta, and BC have too few seats, and every other province is over-represented.