Fair point, but I think property requirements to vote could also be a useful incentive to get on the property ladder. It may also encourage people to either move to, or at least buy property in, less expensive parts of the country.

So a tradesman could still rent his apartment in Fort Mac while owning a couple acres in the woods somewhere, which would give him the right to vote federally, as well as in the province and municipality where his land is located. I think owning real property has a psychological effects; you have more skin in the game in terms of how your society operates.

Not a perfect system by any stretch, but I think it's better than what we have now.