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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).
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 ...
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 the Senate: Hon. George Furey 3 Dec 2015 – 12 May 2023: Hon. Raymonde Gagné 12 May 2023 – present: Government ...
Name Party Electoral district MP since Larry Maguire: Conservative: Brandon—Souris: 2013 Marty Morantz: Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
Name Party Electoral district First elected/previously elected Larry Maguire: Conservative: Brandon—Souris: 2013 Marty Morantz: Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
Historically, several provinces had bicameral legislatures, but they all eventually dissolved their upper house or merged it with their lower house, so that all provincial legislatures are now unicameral. Members of the legislative assemblies of Canada's provinces and territories are called by various names.
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 ...
A democratically elected body, the House of Commons of Canada is one of three components of the Parliament of Canada. The House of Commons currently has 338 members elected in single-member districts in a plurality voting system (first past the post), meaning that members must attain only a plurality (the most votes of any candidate) rather ...