Talk:Canadian House of Commons
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Updated party standing. -1 Liberal, +1 vacant. Mr. Richardson (Liberal, Perth-Middlesex, Ont.), resigned 11 Oct. 2002. On second look I see that a few more members have resigned and changed affiliation than I knew about - a full update is coming as soon as I get back from Thanksgiving. - Montrealais 19:12 Oct 13, 2002 (UTC)
Removed reference to being like the US House of Representatives. The US and Canadian systems are so very different that that comparison is very misleading.
I removed the following:
Under the Westminster system, the House of Commons appoints the Prime Minister of Canada who is the leader of the largest party or coalition of parties. Utterly wrong. Under the Westminster system a prime minister is appointed by the head of state or representative of the head of state from the HofC. He/she is NEVER elected. Indeed very few parliamentary democracies allow parliament to elect a pm. Most give to the head of state the role of commissioning someone to form a government. This is a basic error in this article. FearÉIREANN 01:24 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Um... the PC party and Canadian Alliance haven't fused their caucuses yet. - Montréalais 06:49, 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
colours
we need to come to agreement on colours. here are my thoughts. we need colours that both A- represent the parties and B- are different and distinct enough to see
the major problem is that both the Bloc and Conservatives claim blue as their colour. we cannot, therefore, have 2 parties with the same shade of blue. it would also not make sence, IMHO, to have a light blue tory party (AKA royal blue) light blue BQ, light orange NDP, and a dark red liberal party. this is why I changed the tories to be blue (regular ole blue) if you go with a variant of blue for the tories you need a variant of red for the grits IMHO.
here are some suggestions: Blue:
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Red:
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Orange:
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Others:
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thx for the new bloc colour, I couldent find a good one Pellaken 02:11, 29 Jan 2004 (UTC)
I have/will edit(ed) the seat distribution. in the table with colours. its a real ...annoyance... to have to fiddle with those seats, and change row after row just to get one seat moved from one party to another, etc. Therefore, like in the real parliament, the backbenches will have indepednents, etc. I will place them where parties meet. so you will end up with things like this
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I would use the real seat distribution, but I cant find it. either way, this makes it easier to edit. I will still stack vacancies on the right as much as I can. Pellaken 05:15, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
- I'd like some feedback?? I dont wanna do this if its not going to be popular. who made the table, anyone know? Pellaken 06:52, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)