- List of Canadian federal parliaments
of the House of Commons and can sit for up to five years. 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 308 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 House of Commons becomes Prime Minister, even if he or she is not an elected member of parliament. The leader of the party with the second-most seats in the House becomes the Leader of the Opposition, and debate between the parties is presided over by the Speaker of the House. When the party with the most seats has less than half of the total number of seats, it forms aminority government , which can be voted out of power by the other parties. The Canadian Parliament is located atParliament Hill in the capital city,Ottawa . The current assembly is the39th Canadian parliament since the confederation of Canada in1867 .Parliaments
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