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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by serge2k on Friday June 03, 2016 @06:55PM (#11833829)
The west doesn't tend to have a lot of influence. Especially when a candidate is popular out east (Ontario and Quebec). When it's conservatives coming to power it's different since Quebec tends to avoid voting conservative.

I'm from BC. Polls close and the victory is called before votes even results even really start coming in.

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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by thinkloop on Friday June 03, 2016 @08:18PM (#11834207)
That's not a representation of influence, if timezones were reversed the same would happen with Quebec, minus the larger population.
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Re:Canada’s $6.9B Wildfire Is the Size of Delaware and Still... by hluska on Friday June 03, 2016 @09:50PM (#11834513)
With all due respect, I don't think you understand how the Canadian system works.

Out of 338 seats in our parliament, 231 are held in Ontario and points east.

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