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Originally Posted by STAMPEDRED
You don’t get it. The electoral college in the states is to prevent the major centers from dictating what happens in the entire country. Look at Canada, the major centers in Ontario are mostly red, and the rural areas in most of Canada are blue. The blue has the popular vote, but lose because the urban centers have a vast representation. If bc and Alberta where given proper representation that equals close to Quebec’s - based on population! - then the country would get better representation instead of so heavily slanted to the Toronto’s and Montreal’s. Popular vote is hardly ever a good metric to base it on. However in Canada’s case, because of biased representation towards the east, the west constantly feels left out because we are. Even if we get the popular vote, we don’t have the seats available to reflect it in parliament.
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Yeah I do get it. It should be based on population, but it's not properly based on population and as such we should have had a Triple E senate to help protect smaller provinces and prevent the two bigger provinces (Ontario and Quebec) from controlling everything. Instead we get nights like tonight where you have a section of Canada (the prairies) that will get next to no say over the next election term because the liberals will be pandering to Quebec and Ontario. The difference is the senate in the US is equal and elected and effective. Ours is a joke that is unelected and rubber stamps most everything.