rwwetmore@grand.waterloo.edu (Ross Wetmore) (07/30/89)
>In article <1989Jul28.003559.25233@tmsoft.uucp> ead@tmsoft.UUCP (Elizabeth Doucette) writes: -(Elizabeth Doucette) writes: % Federally, each province doesn't get %an equal vote. The same number of MP's should come from each %province. Then you would see some changes. -(David Gibbs) writes: % The general principal in federal elections is one person one vote, with %the hope that all the votes will be about equal. % Even with the current system, anyone in the more urban provinces %has less clout per voter than in the less urban, and a voter in %P.E.I has the most clout. And anyone in a city has less clout. %(Remember Canada in supposed to be a nation of Canadian citizens, % not a union of semi-independent provinces.) Perhaps we could use the UN as the example and design it to reflect each of the above positions. Then the debate could focus on a more abstract level or at least with a more common political/geographical position of the proponents. Would this change the positions any, I wonder. Ross W. Wetmore | rwwetmore@water.NetNorth University of Waterloo | rwwetmore@math.Uwaterloo.ca Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 | {uunet, ubc-vision, utcsri} (519) 885-1211 ext 4719 | !watmath!rwwetmore