I like the current nature of the senate.
Long and slow transitions from one party to the next provide the only check on the elected dictator model of government we have.
The tradition of being a rubber stamp but available to act if political norms are broken provides additional protection.
So as long as the senate behaves like the unelected body that isn’t supposed to intervene it can serve its in case of emergency break glass function.
The idea of giving the maritimes even more disproportionate political power under US style concepts is terrible in a US style senate with equal per province representation you’d get 5 million people controlling 60% of the seats.
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