NL-Outsidethebox [confederation]

Wait that would be our colonial/Federal politics with Ontario having 106 seats out of 308 and Quebec having 75.

What's "colonial" about the number of seats that Ontario and Quebec have in the House of Commons?

Originally it was 24 Ontario, 24 Quebec, 12 for each of the Atlantic provinces.

Holy cows! That's incredible.

You are comparing apples and oranges. The first set of figures you quote are for the House of Commons as it stands today. This second set is for the Senate as it constituted in 1867.

The original House of Commons was calculated on the following formula, in the 1867 BNA Act (it has long since been amended out of existence):

51. On the Completion of the Census in the Year One Thousand eight hundred and seventy one, and of each subsequent decennial Census, the Representation of the Four Provinces shall be readjusted by such Authority, in such Manner, and from such Time, as the Parliament of Canada from Time to Time provides, subject and according to the following Rules:

(1) Quebec shall have a fixed Number of Sixty-five Members:
(2) There shall be assigned to each of the other Provinces a Number of Members as will bear the same Proportion to the Number of its Population (ascertained at such Census) as the Number Sixty-five bears to the Number of the Population of Quebec (so ascertained):

(3) In the Computation of the Number of Members for a Province a fractional Part not exceeding One Half of the whole Number requisite for entitling the Province to a Member shall be disregarded; but a fractional Part exceeding One Half of that Number shall be equivalent to the whole Number:

(4) On any such Re-adjustment the Number of Members for a Province shall not be reduced unless the Proportion which the Number of the Population of the Province bore to the Number of the aggregate Population of Canada at the then last preceding Re-adjustment of the Number of Members for the Province is as- certained at the then latest Census to be diminished by One Twentieth Part or upwards:

(5) Such Re-adjustment shall not take effect until the Termination of the then existing Parliament.

The application of this formula resulted in a House with 82 MPs for Ontario, 65 for Quebec, 19 for Nova Scotia and 15 for New Brunswick.

I'll leave the spelling and grammar checking to WJM since he is such a copyright expert.

What do spelling and grammar have to do with copyright? There are dyslexic copyright experts and super-anal proofreaders who don't know the first thing about copyright.
 

In the words of Paul Martins communication officer Scott Reid. You will pay for your insolence. Paraphrased of course.

Scott Reid never said any such a thing.

You are hereby challenged to find out what Scott Reid actually DID say. It's not hard.
 

Always count on you to toe the Federallies line Wally.

My Bad missed last line in that brief.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Confederation

WJM is correct the numbers I mentioned were for Senators.
 

What is the "Federalies line", and how did I toe it? You made an error of FACT, I corrected it.

What's "Federalies" about getting your facts straight?

I ask again: What's "colonial" about the number of seats that Ontario and Quebec have in the House of Commons?

Is it also "colonial" that Newfoundland has 44 MHAs and Labrador "only" has four?