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You can force parliament to pass one piece of legislation right now. What do you make them pass? (vargar.org)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/canada@lemmy.ca
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I have quite a few creative ideas, but am too tired to write them down rn. I'll go the easy, lazy way (and write about more legislation ideas tomorrow):

Proportional representation like Germany. In every election, the voter votes for an individual and a party. The individual is chosen to represent the riding through STAR voting (my version). After all MPs are elected, to ensure proportional representation according to the party votes (the second vote that voters cast), individuals from party lists are put into parliament.

This way, we get riding representation and party representation.

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[–] 5 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Canada is one of, if not thee richest resource filled countries on Earth

Oil and gas. Forestry, mining, fisheries. Agriculture, tourism... Canada literally has all of this in abundance

Each and every Canadian should own these resources and we should literally be the wealthiest population on the planet.

The fact we are not should anger you and legislation should be created to ensure that we become that

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  • [–] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    How does that answer the thread question? You're passing a law saying what?

    I'd rather have Canada nationalize most of these but without doubling down on oil pipelines and more mining projects... -- Nationalizing agriculture and fisheries and tourism doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

    We're not, basically because none (?) of our resources are Persian Gulf-style money printers. Like, we have oil, but it needs a whole lot of work to get from tar sand to gas tank. Down there it gets close to just sticking a straw in the ground.

    The end result is that we're still one of the richest countries per capita, we just spend a lot of man hours on farming. mining and drilling, instead of on manufacturing like they do in Germany or Japan.

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  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder how many other natural resources Saudi Arabia has compared to Canada

    Like do they have forestry, mining, other materials, agriculture, potash, freshwater lakes, fisheries, other wildlife, tourism

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago*

    Saudi Arabia probably has a total value in resources not too different from Canada, but much more concentrated on fossil fuels and for which it is/was much more straightforward to build the extraction infrastructure

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