Das kanadische Gerrymandering geht auf Kosten der städtischen Wähler
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-gerrymandering-elections-urban-voters/
Das kanadische Gerrymandering geht auf Kosten der städtischen Wähler
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-gerrymandering-elections-urban-voters/
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Always has been.
It’s pretty darn obvious that politicians shouldn’t be drawing their own riding maps, it’s an obvious conflict of interest. Same goes for electoral reform and election rules in general.
EDIT: just to note, even though this point is pretty self-evident, the only people I’ve ever heard publicly advocate it is the longest ballot folks
**Canadian gerrymandering is at the expense of democracy.**
Fixed it.
This is a thing allowed in Canada? How can we change this? How can we make this an election issue? One of the problems with our elections is the media and the parties seems to invent or select what the election issues are. Canadians need a way to DICTATE to the media and parties the issues WE want t addressed. Maybe a ranked system or something. I would vote for the party who tasks elections Canada or elections “province name” with creating a website where Canadians can upload what they think are their top 10 election issues and bear to view all other issues other Canadians have listed incase they want to support ideas they haven’t thought of. Then 6 -10 months before an election the top 10 per province and Canada wide are listed and those become the issues that MUST be debated and campaigned on by the parties and have questions asked about by the media. It’s like Canadians have zero voice and we need to setup a structure to force that voice to be addressed. Vote for me if you want this. Ok I am not running for anything but I want this.
No. Unlike the US, where state legislatures often draw district lines to favor a specific political party, Canada uses independent, non-partisan boundary commissions to redraw its electoral map (ridings) every 10 years. This system effectively prevents partisan gerrymandering.
So how are rural areas supposed to get fair representation then? I guess it’s kind of like how western seats in parliament don’t really matter in federal elections. Or how eastern Maritime provinces are over represented in parliament.
https://archive.is/20260525133918/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-gerrymandering-elections-urban-voters/
It always has been. Urban voters don’t usually vote for Conservatives. They’d never be able to win if urban voters, who make up the majority of the Canadian population, always got their way.
It’s simple math.
This feels like a situation where Canadians are obsessing over American politics, where gerrymandering is a real problem, and want to have the same issues in our own politics.
Like, I hate Doug Ford too, but there’s no way anyone actually believes the PCs giving more ridings to northern Ontario is gerrymandering right? That’s not where his base of support is.
I don’t know enough about Alberta and Quebec’s situation to know exactly what’s happening there, but it’s not a secret that those provincial governments suck and they won pretty decisive victories in their most recent elections. That’s not really a „Canada“ problem.
This article has really good before-and-after diagrams of the proposed districts: [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-electoral-boundaries-commission-keith-archer-9.7201410](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-electoral-boundaries-commission-keith-archer-9.7201410)