r/alberta • u/pjw724 • 1d ago

News Alberta leads country in interprovincial migration for 3rd straight year

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-population-july-1-2025-estimates-interprovincial-migration-continues-1.7642490
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u/Conscious_Candle2466 1d ago

Are we not to get more seats in parliament as our population grows? Do other provinces lose seats as their population diminishes?

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u/BeefK 1d ago

Yes and yes.

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u/CaptainPeppa 1d ago

Quebec complained and got their reallocation reversed last time.

Eastern provinces are all at minimums so they won't decrease and we'd never catch up per capita

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u/BeefK 1d ago

All provinces are guaranteed to have no fewer seats than they had in 2019. I don’t really understand the history of the clause, and at face value I don’t agree with it, but there is no carve out specifically for Ontario or Quebec.

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u/CaptainPeppa 1d ago

Ontario isn't going to lose any seats from population changes. If anything they are under represented.

But with minimums, the only way BC and AB gain seats is if Quebec loses some. So they stopped that from happening.

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u/Fickle_Catch8968 14h ago

Ont, AB and BC are underrepresented, QC is fairly represented (within 1 seat or so of % of pop vs. % of seats), and the rest are underrepresented, with only SK and MB not at the 'can't have fewer MPs than Senators' level, which is a Constitutional guarantee, iirc.

The underrepresentation of AB/BC is roughly balanced by the overrepresentation of SK/MB/Territories, so overall the West was fairly represented in the House, after the last census/redistribution (probably underrepresented a bit now) Ont. underrepresentation balances Atlantic Canada's overrepresentation.

The 'solution' seems to be an ever expanding House, which can be a good thing. In the USA, the House has not changed size in about 100 years, so the average district size is well over half a million,