Canadian government sued by American Corporation

[Masark]

90% of quebec voted against Harper. That means 7 millions votes.

83% actually. And considerable percentages in all other provinces. He only got more than half the vote in 3 provinces.

[prwraith]

I think we can all agree Quebec is the black sheep of canada. Until that female is gone I'd rather cut that piece out of the map.

[Elegiac]

I think we can all agree Quebec is the black sheep of canada. Until that female is gone I'd rather cut that piece out of the map.

Uh, no. Nationalism needs to die in a fire.

Anyway, @Masark; who needs gerrymandering when you have FPTP?

[Masark]

Anyway, @Masark; who needs gerrymandering when you have FPTP?

Conservatives in Saskatchewan. Examine the slice and dice they do to Regina and Saskatoon, two NDP strongholds.

[Elegiac]

Conservatives in Saskatchewan. Examine the slice and dice they do to Regina and Saskatoon, two NDP strongholds.

Who does districting in Canada? Do you have an electoral commission?

[Gheld]

I'm voting for the first time, liberal, for no other reason than anti harper.

A vote for Trudeau IS a vote for Harper. Mulcair could never live up to Layton but on election day people will detect that he at least has a spine, as opposed to the spinal fluid flavor gelatin running down the length of Trudeau's back.

The "please have my babies Justin!" Crowd will just split the vote and win it for the conservatives.

[Morogoth]

I think we can all agree Quebec is the black sheep of canada. Until that female is gone I'd rather cut that piece out of the map.

what do you mean? having a black sheep is always interesting.

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A vote for Trudeau IS a vote for Harper. Mulcair could never live up to Layton but on election day people will detect that he at least has a spine, as opposed to the spinal fluid flavor gelatin running down the length of Trudeau's back.

The "please have my babies Justin!" Crowd will just split the vote and win it for the conservatives.

lol I guess you'll have to vote for the Bloc Gheld

[iggie]

So you will vote for Trudeau, a quebecker. Are you ok with that? I'm just asking.

Are you suggesting I not vote for someone because of the province one comes from?

[Masark]

Who does districting in Canada? Do you have an electoral commission?

Somewhat. It's an ad hoc thing.

The redistributions are done by a 3 person electoral boundary commission in each province. One of the three(the chairperson) is appointed by the chief justice of the highest provincial court and the other two are appointed by the Speaker of the House of Commons (Appointed by the PM and confirmed by majority vote of the House) and need to be a resident of the province in question.

The law on this is the Electoral Boundaries Readjustment Act.

Technically, the House of Commons has to approve the redistribution plan, but that's really just a formality. They have no real authority to block the redistribution, though some of the MPs were whining about the urban-only ridings and spawing various nonsense, though they didn't get anywhere with it.

Further information about what exactly they're doing with the boundaries can be find here. They're actually fixing my issue for the most part by establishing some urban-only riding, which should bring the NDP's share of the seats into line with the percentage of their votes.

[Shemsu Hov]

I think we can all agree Quebec is the black sheep of canada. Until that female is gone I'd rather cut that piece out of the map.

We're already a small country. We don't need to make our selves any smaller over some petty hate. If someone wants the votes of all of Canada, they should find out what we want. But each province will continue to vote for who ever appeals to them more. I am unable to find if there are large political differences between each province(I just come up with Province vs. Territory comparisons) but I know there is enough to make each province as a whole prefer certain parties over others because their policies appeal to that province more. For example, Alberta would most likely vote for the party that would benefit workers the most. Also I don't know a lot about our political system so if someone could PM me a link to some info about it that would be awesome.

[Deleted]

Hah, because a greedy company is going to try and sue the Canadian Government, good luck with that.

Lol the canadians will probably give them some money and apologise <3

[Notchris]

Ah NAFTA! The gift that keeps on giving!

Who would have thought that putting in a clause to allow corporations sue other countries governments for ANYTHING was a less then stellar idea?