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Originally Posted by Docere
Ironically Calgary has more MLAs than city councillors.
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So do most cities in smaller provinces. In Winnipeg, it’s 2:1. The sizes of these bodies should be determined by the number required for them to function effectively, not by an attempt to ensure that politicians “represent” a certain number of voters. So provincial legislatures obviously need to be big enough to ensure that a cabinet can be formed and that there will generally be enough opposition members to do that job effectively. City governments are more like corporate boards of directors, and don’t need to be as big. Apple or General Electric don’t have boards 1000 times the size of those of a small company, or even of 47, because they know they’d never get anything done with such a large number of voices at the table.