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Originally Posted by DJones

I do not want any of those things. Hell this whole argument started by me saying there should be a rule that any federal spending on provincial jurisdiction should be able to turned down and the province gets full compensation. At no point have I been, hmm you know what our healthcare needs. Decision makers from Ottawa making decisions centered around the GTA that would then be forced on Alberta. That would somehow fix things.



You can go on facebook and talk to your city councilors. You can go to weekly meetings. Farkas is on reddit.

There's tons of events each year that you can meet these people at. Pretty much any charity/fund/sponsorship will have one of them at it. They live in your neighborhood, half of them are small business owners. I've met loads of them just through work and a few causes I like.

There's 34 MPs, 87 MLAs, and hundreds of councilors/mayors and your MP is likely 3000kms away most of the year. The disparity in access is gigantic.



Every large country has regional based second houses. It's a borderline stereotype. Smaller areas love it, more populated places hate it. One thing they agree on is that those regional disparities do reflect different politics. That's just a given. Like ####, our whole federal politics for a generation has been dominated by Liberals as the default central Canada and then two regional parties in Reform and Bloc. You can pretend that region, economics, demographics, industry, ect do not effect politics but thats just naive. People are a product of their environment and will behave accordingly. Shocking two provinces on different sides of a continent with different histories, economies, and goals want different things.

Need that second senate house to just hammer on the PM. Really grind things to a hault. Legislative efficiency in a top down society is not a virtue. It's a risk.

If we agree with 90% of Ontario, that's great. We can copy eachother. If we don't agree, I do not want to follow them. I see zero benefit in following them blindly and I do not want them in charge of how the money gets dispersed.

Well-argued, succinct, and persuasive. Are you done now?