Leger Poll: CPC 36%, LPC 30%, NDP 19%, BQ 7%, GRN 4%, PPC 2%

I'm ambivalent about making Canada's senate elected. They know that if they actually exercised their theoretical power to veto a popular bill then they would just get legislated out of existence. So they're basically a rubber stamp on whatever the house wants to do anyways, but when they do push back it's because something is genuinely wrong with technical aspects of the legislation rather than political grandstanding (e.g., the House rushes some bill through for political points but it has a bunch of oversights and loopholes...the Senate will reject it and force the House to actually make the bill a meaningful piece of legislation).

My issue with the Canadian Senate is that it's also horrifically unrepresentative of the population. It's 105 seats distributed equally among the "historical regions" of Canada. So the Maritimes (2 million people), Quebec (8.6 million people), Ontario (15 million people), and all the western provinces (12.5 million people) all get 24 senators apiece. And the number of Senators from each region does not change even as populations change throughout the different regions of Canada.

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