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@hub Not sure I see how that applies? At least not any more than it does now, because, well, Ontario is the most populous province and you (very roughly) distribute seats based on population.
We just don't fill those seats anywhere near the same proportions as voters want.
PR is a broad range of specific systems that can be designed to account for regionality and context. The point of the petition is to get something other than FPTP see-sawing us back and forth.
@johannab you can remove FPTP without changing the form of representation. A run-off for example is another option, whether ranked ballot or two rounds. But you all seems to want to have more extremist in Parliament.
I mean, really, if you're bothered about "Ontario will control parliament", Alberta should never have let Pierre Poilievre show his face there. 🙄 Toxic partisanism, parachute candidates and FPTP are all sending us down the drain.
If anything, something like MMP would disempower partisanism, and let provinces be represented by multi-party regional blocks who have to *gasp* collaborate and govern!!!! Whoa.
@johannab if you do a little bit of math, with PR you'd get more of PP. And Maxime Bernier would get his seat. Your proposal is like single issue voter. Not part of the solution.
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"PR is a broad range of specific systems that can be designed to account for regionality and context."
Take each province with 5 or more seats and divide them into Megaridings of five seats with a balanced remainder. (So, for example, Newfoundland and Labrador would have two Megaridings of 4 and 3 seats each.) Then do PR in each riding.
You keep regional elections, but you can't have a party win 40% of the vote in 60% of the ridings and dominate Parliament with 35% support.