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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[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 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.

[–] Karmanopoly@lemmy.world 0 points 17 hours 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

[–] CanadaPlus@futurology.today 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

They have Mecca. Otherwise, basically no, AFAIK it's a one-trick pony. And there's a bit of a problem getting that trick to market ATM.

(We also have a somewhat larger population than them)

[–] villasv@lemmy.ca 1 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours 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