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This is a list of current members of the Senate of Canada (French: Le Sénat du Canada), the upper house of the Parliament of Canada. Unlike the members of Parliament in the House of Commons, the 105 senators are appointed by the governor general on the advice of the prime minister. [1]
The number of seats in parliament has varied as new provinces joined the country and as population distribution between the provinces changed; there are currently 338 House MPs and 105 Senators (when there are no vacancies). Canada uses a Westminster-style parliamentary government, in which the leader of the party with the most seats in the ...
The following are lists of members of the Senate of Canada: List of current senators of Canada; List of Senate of Canada appointments by prime minister;
Members of the Senate of Canada are appointed by the Governor General of Canada on the recommendation of his or her prime minister. This list is broken down by party and further sorted into three categories: senators appointed who sat in the government caucus , senators appointed who sat in opposition caucuses, and senators appointed who sat in ...
A group of Native American nations in Canada and the United States. Neutral Confederacy: 1615 - 1653: Iron Confederacy: pre 1692 - 1885 AD Sip Song Chau Tai: pre 17th cent.-1954 AD: Confederation of chiefdoms in mountainous north-west Vietnam. It came under French influence from 1889 to 1954, via Tonkin and then French Indochina. Illinois ...
It currently has three non-party parliamentary groups: the Independent Senators Group (ISG), the Canadian Senators Group (CSG), and the Progressive Senate Group (PSG). These three groups do not share a formal ideology, platform, or membership in any one political party; the caucuses primarily serve to provide organizational support and better ...
Senator Lifespan Party [1] Prov. Entered Left Appointed by Left due to For life? Raymonde Saint-Germain: 1951–present: NA: QC: 25 November 2016 — Trudeau, J. — John Sewell Sanborn
Independent Senators Group Patricia Bovey: Non-affiliated Manitoba November 10, 2016: Trudeau, J. May 15, 2023: Retirement No Yes Independent Senators Group Yvonne Boyer: Non-affiliated Ontario March 15, 2018: Trudeau, J. Incumbent No Yes Independent Senators Group Patrick Brazeau: Non-affiliated Quebec January 8, 2009: Harper Incumbent Yes Yes