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Originally Posted by redforever

You can reduce seats as long as you don't reduce them below what is guaranteed by senatorial clauses or the amalgem formulae.

Yes, but the only provinces that currently have more seats than they are guaranteed are Alberta, BC, and Ontario, and they're the provinces that are underrepresented.

Originally Posted by Bownesian

For those interested, I saw a good chart (in link below). I'd be OK with this version, assuming it's just a legislative change and doesn't require a constitutional amendment.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/...ats-house.html

Unfortunately, it does require changing the Constitution.

The numbers proposed by the Liberals would drop Quebec, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland & Labrador below their 1985 levels, which are guaranteed in the Constitution.

In order to make the amendment, it would have to be passed by both the House and the Senate, plus 2/3 of Provincial Legislatures. Since it would negatively impact half the provinces, all it would take is 4 provinces to vote against it, and that would be that.