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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).
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 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 ...
Name Party Electoral district MP since Larry Maguire: Conservative: Brandon—Souris: 2013 Marty Morantz: Conservative Charleswood—St. James—Assiniboia—Headingley
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 44th Canadian Parliament is the session of the Parliament of Canada which began on 22 November 2021, with the membership of the House of Commons, having been determined by the results of the 2021 federal election held on 20 September.
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
Very useful information can be obtained at the official website, [1] including information about current members of the House of Commons [2] and past members. [3] Portrait images of members are available through the prior links and could usefully be uploaded to Wikipedia (older images are public domain, [ 4 ] newer ones are non-commercial with ...