Talk:List of Canadian federal parliaments

List of Canadian federal parliaments is a featured list, which means it has been identified as one of the best lists produced by the Wikipedia community. If you can update or improve it, please do so.

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Date	Process	Result
November 30, 2005	Articles for deletion	Kept
May 24, 2006	Featured list candidate	Not promoted
August 4, 2006	Featured list candidate	Promoted

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Failed AFD

This article's AFD debate got consensus to keep. Johnleemk | Talk 12:59, 30 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

messy

It looks somewhat messy in the parliaments where the ruling party changed. Is there some way to make all of the years line up with each other (other than turning the thing into a table)? -arctic gnome 00:48, 18 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm making a chart. If it looks really dumb I'll revert. -arctic gnome 00:10, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Conservative/Liberal-Conservative

When do people think that we should start calling the "Conservative/Liberal-Conservative" just "Conservative"? Do we bother using both names when the coalition is in opposition? Do we use the full name when the "Conservatives" had enough seats to have formed government by themselves without the help of the "Liberal-Conservatives"? In the 12th Canadian Parliament, the "Liberal-Conservatives" only had one seat, but they were still part of the coalition, do we use the name then? -arctic gnome 01:31, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Discrepancies with sources

This list wasn't featured on WP:FLC because there are discrepancies between the information in it and the information given on one of its references, specifically the list of Leaders of the Opposition. Some work needs to be done to clarify any conflicts that exist between this list and its source. TheGrappler 18:52, 25 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Featured List

This should be a featured list now. How does it get one of those little stars at the top right of the page? --Arctic Gnome 22:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

I'm new to this subject but I have two comments about this great list.

Why is the list's name List of Canadian federal parliaments and not List of Canadian parliaments, since there's no mention of the "federal parliament" term in the page?
And could you increase the width of the "Parliament and election" columns so that elections and sessions fill only two lines? Thank you. CG 09:20, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Good points. I've added the word "federal" to the first line and linked it, but I may have to be a bit clearer. I'm worried about making the list any wider, as people with smaller monitors were having problems viewing it when it was any bigger; also, I personally like the two lines below the Parliament name. --Arctic Gnome 19:11, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for the first point. As for the second, I didn't mean to create new colums, but to widen just a litlle bit the "Parliament and election" columns because it appears like this:

1st Canadian Parliament
— elected
1867
— (5
sessions

CG 20:45, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, that's no good. I've widened the first column a bit. Tweek it some more if it still looks bad on your display, or ask me to do it if you don't know the table code. --Arctic Gnome 22:47, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like the biggest problem is that it's treating "Liberal-Conservative Party" as only two words, so it won't break them up. I'll add a space on either side of the dash. --Arctic Gnome 23:03, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry for the late Thank you. CG 09:45, 21 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

new column

I want to add a column about what other parties had official party status in each parliament. However, if we make the list any wider it won't show up right on small menitors, so would anyone oppose getting rid of the speakers column? Who the speaker is isn't really a critical piece of information and anyone interested can just go look at the list of speakers. --Arctic Gnome 17:57, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Where's the Canadian Senate?

See the 39th Canadian Parliament Talk page, for discussion. GoodDay 20:36, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

How do think the senate should be worked into the table? --Arctic Gnome 22:35, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, though it's painstaking, may have to check list of All Canadian Senators tenures; and add them accordingly to each #Canadian Parliment. GoodDay 22:44, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'm going to (in the next few days), begin adding the Canadian Senators (past & present), to the 1st through 39th Canadian Parliments. It will take a long, long, long time. Put I'll give it a try. GoodDay 22:52, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Most of them don't even have lists of MPs. I would think the lists of lower house members would be a priority if you want to spend that much time on these articles. --Arctic Gnome 22:56, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Well, if not the actual Senators then at least the political party composition of the Senate during those Parliaments. GoodDay 01:08, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Because this topic is about several articles, I'm moving the conversation to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Government of Canada/Parliaments of Canada. --Arctic Gnome 01:10, 4 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've added some seat counts in the Senate, though I need to find a new source for older Parliaments. --Arctic Gnome 07:33, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

What parties make up the coalition?

What parties make up the coalition? I heard that a major party and and minor party joined together to take over parliament in Canada? What is the voting block? Seems this is a major hole in the info on this page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.131.1.131 (talk • contribs) 08:59, April 6, 2007 (UTC).

No coalition with a minor party has ever "taken over" parliament. All government have been formed by either the Liberals or the Conservatives. The only coalition was during WW1 between those two parties in the 13th Parliament, and that one has both a footnote and its own article that are linked, so I don't see it as being a hole. There are also the Conservative/Lib-Con governments, which are here called "coalitions" and have a footnote explaining them, but I guess could be a bit clearer. You might also be thinking of the 15th Parliament, where the Conservatives had the most seats, but the Liberals formed government because they had the support of the minor parties; in that case they didn't form an official coalition. Is there are way you think these cases could be better explained than through the footnotes? --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 14:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, I just answered the same question at Talk:Parliament of Canada. Seems like the anon user is a European unfamiliar with the majority-government worshiping nature of FPTP...Padraic · talk 14:11, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Footnote 18

"Brian Mulroney used a never-before used clause in the Constitution" <-- could this mention which clause is the one in question? Padraic · talk 14:15, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Done. --Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 15:04, 25 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Leaders of the Opposition

I noticed that, in the appendix Leaders of the Official Opposition in the House of Commons Since 1873 at the Library of Parliament site, there is a footnote:

In the First Parliament, following the general election of 1867, the Members who sat in the House opposite the government of Sir John A. Macdonald did not constitute a party but a coalition of various interests, just as the government did ....

Should this be reflected in the Wikipedia article? --Big_iron (talk) 14:33, 18 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Missing image descriptions with legends for seat colours

About half of the images on this page have descriptions which include a legend showing which party is represented by each colour. For instance, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chambre_des_Communes_1867.png

The description for one image (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canada_2006_Federal_Election_seats.svg) says: > See Canadian Parliament legend. The independent is André Arthur.

...but that "Canadian Parliament Legend" page doesn't exist.

I've never edited Wikipedia, and I also don't know where the images originally came from, so I don't know how to fix this. I can poke at it a bit though, I see some of the images say stuff like: > This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below.

...so maybe the ones with missing descriptions just need to be tracked down on Wikimedia Commons and the descriptions copied over, or something... Bayersglassey (talk) 00:53, 1 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]