I believe he is Canadian, but it also sounds like the US pattern of "We deserve over-representation because look at all this land, or we farm the food, or whatever" is being echoed in Canada.
And THAT is a big problem in Alberta - a lot of the more conservative base has come to identify heavily with a lot of American conservative ideals, up to and including throwing American or Confederate flags on their stuff and parroting the same ideology in the form of bumper stickers. There's even a movement to secede and petition to join the United States. It's very bizarre.
Alberta is heavily under-represented in our federal government, so I don't know what you think it sounds like, but you're dead wrong.
Alberta has 34 seats in parliament with 4.067 million people for an average of 119k people per federal seat. Maritime provinces like Newfoundland have 7 federal seats with a population of 519k, for an average of 74k people per seat. If you look at our Senate, the representation is even more disproportionate. New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with a combined population of 1.8 million people have 24 seats in the Senate, while Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC, defined as "The West" and with a population of 11 million receive 24 seats as well.
So no, no one is saying "We deserve over-representation because look at our land", people are saying "we are under-represented in the Senate at a 10-1 ratio, and by almost 2-1 in parliament, and still under-represented even if you remove the maritime provinces from the equation". Your statement is empty stereotyping of the most tired variety.
> New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, with a combined population of 1.8 million people have 24 seats in the Senate, while Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and BC, defined as "The West" and with a population of 11 million receive 24 seats as well.
Isn't it a fixed number of senators per state/provinces? Wyoming has the same number of senate seats as California for instance.
Yes exactly, but isn't that the direct opposite of what the commenter I am replying to was saying? That somehow Alberta is whining about being under-represented and that our landmass should entitle us to seats? I responding to that tired and also completely incorrect idea, not commenting on the merits of a fixed representation in the Senate, we can debate that at a later time.
