Funny enough the Income, Wealth and Economic prosperity of ridings doesn't show much correlation to party affiliation, even population wise, we would have ended up with pretty much the same seat count in proportional representation.
But yes, the suggestion that voting privileges be linked to economic capacity is directly backpedaling on at least 250 years of western tradition, and clearly out of step with anything you could consider Democratic, or Canadian, or Modern, or Fair.
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