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Name Party Electoral district MP since Larry Maguire: Conservative: Brandon—Souris: 2013 Marty Morantz: Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
House of Commons; Speaker of the Commons: Hon. Anthony Rota 5 Dec 2019 – 27 Sep 2023: Louis Plamondon (interim) 27 Sep 2023 – 3 Oct 2023: Hon. Greg Fergus 3 Oct 2023 – present: Government House Leader: Hon. Mark Holland 26 Oct 2021 – 26 Jul 2023: Hon. Karina Gould 26 Jul 2023 – present: Opposition House Leader: Gérard Deltell 2 Sep ...
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] Senators originally held their seats for life; however ...
Number of members per party by date 2019 Mar 20 Apr 2 May 6 Jun 20 Aug 2 Aug 16 Sep 1 Liberal: 179 177 Conservative: 97 96 95 New Democratic: 41 40 39 Bloc Québécois: 10 Green: 1 2 Co-operative Commonwealth: 1 People's: 1 Independent: 5 7 8 Total members 335 336 335 334 333 Government majority 24 22 21 22 23 Vacant 3 2 3 4 5
The House of Commons of Canada (French: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Commons is a democratically elected body whose members are known as members of Parliament (MPs).
Lists of members of the Canadian House of Commons cover the members elected to the House of Commons of Canada, the lower chamber of the bicameral Parliament of Canada. Seats in the House of Commons are distributed roughly in proportion to the population of each province and territory .
The modern-day Parliament of Canada came into existence in 1867, in which year the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland passed the British North America Act, 1867, uniting the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Canada—with the Province of Canada split into Quebec and Ontario—into a single federation called ...
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 ...