Talk:41st Canadian Parliament

Party Standing Changes

The members of the bloc resigned for their party and now sit as independents, this the bloc needs to be removed, images need to be updated to reflect them as independents, tables need to be updates, etc... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.138.221.236 (talk) 16:48, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

Where did you hear that? 117Avenue (talk) 18:51, 8 June 2011 (UTC)

The federal parliament requires a party to have 12 seats to get official party status. I believe that without it, Bloc members and Ms. May are still referred to as Bloc and Green members on documents, but they do not get any time in question period or opposition day, and they do not get office space or staff for caucus business. We need to decide whether to include parties without status across our articles and lists, so I recommend that we move this discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Governments of Canada. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 19:48, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

Leader of the Opposition

Why is Nycole Turmel not listed as the interim leader of the Opposition NDP as of July 25, 2011? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.194.109.156 (talk) 16:45, 22 August 2011 (UTC)

Because she wasn't. 117Avenue (talk) 03:06, 23 August 2011 (UTC)

Shouldn't Turmel be listed as the current 'Leader of the Opposition', even though she's 'Interim leader of the NDP'? GoodDay (talk) 00:28, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Has the Parliament of Canada said she is? 117Avenue (talk) 01:53, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Wait until September 2011. GoodDay (talk) 14:11, 28 August 2011 (UTC)

Key dates in infobox

I'll ask this here because I don't know if many people watch the template. I think we should add to the infobox the return date of the writs and the dissolution date. If I had my way, we would use those dates as main dates at the very top of the infobox, but unfortunately, our source uses the opening of the first session and the closing of the last session as the key dates. Does anyone have a better idea for how to add the return day and dissolution than just adding yet another section? —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:46, 6 December 2011 (UTC)

Scandals & Controversies

With so many scandals and controversial bills being passed through the commons shouldn't we add a non-partisan section such as "Controversies". Just a thought. Acid 1 (talk) 01:49, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

I think a section called "1st session"" or "First session" with a narrative description of issues that have impacted or played a part in the 41st Canadian Parliament would be ok, similar to how the 40th Canadian Parliament article handles this. maclean (talk) 20:03, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Deputy Government Whip in the Senate

I found out that Sen. Carignan succeeded Sen. Comeau as Deputy Leader, which led me to find out that Sen. Marshall succeeded Sen. Di Nino as Government Whip. Both changes, according to PARLINFO happened on May 25, 2011, so I made the appropriate changes. The change at Deputy Government Whip isn't as clear. The entries for Stephen Greene and Yonah Martin both say the changeover happened in 2012 (no month, let alone day, specified). Google shows numerous hits for Martin in 2011 though. These include PDFs of items put out on her stationary. Since it is not clear when exactly the switch happened, I'm leaving Greene. I'm also going to contact the web folks at PARLINFO to see if they can track down when she succeeded him. -Rrius (talk) 06:37, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Political Diatribe

This entire entry reads like a childish press release from the Governing Party.

The 'highlights' are all bills with their cartoonish titles instead of the Bill numbers. Names such as "The Protecting Children From Internet Predators Act" is typical nonsense. The bill would amend the Criminal Code of Canada which has not been renamed with a similarly self-gratifying name. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.134.192.9 (talk) 03:16, 6 June 2013 (UTC)

Liberal senators' designation

See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject Political parties and politicians in Canada#Liberal senators' designation. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 18:37, 1 February 2014 (UTC)

What bills died with the election call?

Since the news doesn't seem to be able to tell me, I came here hoping this page had the information, or a link to something on parliament, which provides a correct list of which legislation died as a result of the election call. Maybe this information belong on the election page instead, but it's not there either, I think. 24.57.218.21 (talk) 20:43, 2 August 2015 (UTC)