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Originally Posted by BoLevi
Well they did spend a few years in the 19th century killing each other by the hundreds of thousands.
Despite that, the structure under which the United States was setup was much more robust with significantly more foresight than whatever cobbled together nonsense has created perpetual squabbling in this country.
I'm of the mind that Canada was originally populated by people who were by definition okay with colonialism. So when they constructed Canada they did it with a colonialist mindset. This is why central Canada's population base dominates the rest of the country's policies. This was a feature not a bug.
The relationship between Central Canada's and Alberta is basically colonial.
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If Canada had Electoral College instead of FPTP it would be worse for smaller provinces since each province becomes a block for electing the leader. Ontario and Quebec's blocks are always going to dominate.
Having an equal and empowered senate would mitigate this, but each province still only has 1/13 of the vote.
In a multi-party system both EC and equal senate get diluted, but if we change to a two-party system more often than not Alberta will still be on the wrong side of the federal government.