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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
Just make the riding big enough that it has roughly the same number of voters as the smaller urban ones, there are consequences for choosing to live in the middle of nowhere, some good, cheap housing, some bad, you have to drive hours to get an xray or see your MP.
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It doesn't make sense to make ridings so big that they end up straddling geographical and economic areas where the people may have much different concerns. If my town is a logging town, but the majority of the riding is agricultural and MP is catering to that base, it is not meaningful representation.
There needs to be a comprise between population and what is practical enough to serve the needs of the people in the riding.
And it isn't always a choice for people to live in remote areas. Sometimes they were just born there and didn't have the financial or educational opportunities to move. There is industry in remote areas and we need people to live there. I mean really, most people don't love to live there, but it's all they know.