Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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).
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 2020 – 4 Feb 2022: John Brassard 5 Feb 2022 – 12 Sep 2022: Andrew Scheer 13 Sep 2022 – present: Members: 338 MP seats List of members: Senate; Seating arrangements of the Senate: Speaker of ...
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 lists of members are organized alphabetically, by age ...
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 ...
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 ...
Name Party Electoral district First elected/previously elected Larry Maguire: Conservative: Brandon—Souris: 2013 Marty Morantz: Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
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 44th Canadian Parliament has existed since 2021 with the membership of its House of Commons having been determined by the results of the 44th Canadian federal election held on September 20, 2021. The Liberal Party of Canada has a minority government during this Parliament, supported by the New Democratic Party in a confidence-and-supply ...