CMHoC House of Commons

House of Commons of Canada Chambre des communes du Canada
5th Parliament
Type
Type	Lower House of the Parliament of Canada
Leadership
Speaker	AuroraHOC, Non-Affiliated since January 5, 2020
Prime Minister	TBD since TBD
Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition	TBD since TBD
Structure
Seats	338
Political groups	Her Majesty's Government (0) Parties without official status (0)   New Democratic (0)   Conservative (0)   Liberal (0)   Progressive (0)   Freedom (0)   Libertarian (0)   Independent (0)
Elections
Voting system	Party-List Proportional
Last election	February 19, 2020
Next election	April 12, 2020
Meeting place
House of Commons Chamber West Block - Parliament Hill Ottawa, Ontario Canada
Website
www.reddit.com/r/cmhoc/

The House of Commons of Canada (French: Chambre des communes du Canada) is the only chamber in the Parliament of Canada. The House of Commons currently meets in a temporary Commons chamber in the West Block of the parliament buildings on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, while the Centre Block, which houses the traditional Commons chamber, undergoes a ten-year renovation.

The House of Commons is a democratically elected body whose members are known as Members of Parliament (MPs). There were 25 members in the 1st to 3rd Parliament , but that number rose to 338 following the 4th election. Members are elected closed list-proportional system in each of the country's 32 electoral districts, which are colloquially known as ridings. MPs may hold office until Parliament is dissolved and serve for constitutionally limited terms of up to five years after an election. Historically however, terms have ended before their expiry and the sitting government has typically dissolved parliament within four years of an election according to a long-standing convention. In any case, an Act of Parliament now limits each term to four years.

Seats in the House of Commons are distributed roughly in proportion to the population of each province and territory. However, some ridings are more populous than others, and the Canadian constitution contains provisions regarding provincial representation. As a result, there is some interprovincial and regional malapportionment relative to the population.

The House of Commons was established in 1867, when the British North America Act (now called the Constitution Act, 1867) created the Dominion of Canada and was modelled on the British House of Commons.

Members and Ridings

The House of Commons comprises 338 members, each of whom represents one of the 32 multi member electoral districts (also called a riding). The constitution specifies a basic minimum of 295 electoral districts, but additional seats are allocated according to various clauses. Seats are distributed among the provinces in proportion to population, as determined by each decennial census, subject to the following exceptions made by the constitution. The districts number of seats range from 19 (Vancouver City) to 3 (Territories) and seats are distributed proportionally by using D'Hondt method.

In the last election, only 31 out of the 338 members of parliament were human MP's. By the rules, the remaining 307 members are NPC and vote in accordance to the influence of the human MP's. MP's have different amounts of influence depending on their roles and the size of their party, with parties with more MP's having less influence for each human MP.

Current Composition

Party		Leader	Seats	%
	New Democratic	Nathan Cullen	154	45.5
	Conservative	Logan Flynn	107	31.7
	Liberal	Phillip Cain	65	19.2
	Progressive	Tekaronhió:ken d'Anson	7	2.1
	Freedom	Nick Panin	2	0.6
	Libertarian	William Joiner (non-MP)	1	0.3
	Independents	n/a	1	0.3
Total			337	100%