Vote #1408 Jun 2022

Bill C-246 is about changing how many people each area gets in the House of Commons.

Defeated51 Yeas

264 Nays

12 Paired

What This Vote Is Really About

This vote is about a proposed law called Bill C-246. It wants to change how many people each Member of Parliament (MP) represents in the House of Commons. Right now, the number of MPs for each province is based on its population. This proposed law wants to make sure that no province loses MPs, even if its population doesn't grow as fast as other provinces. If this proposed law passes, it could mean some provinces have more MPs than they would normally get based on their population. This could give those provinces more say in the government. Citizens should care because it affects how much influence their province has in making laws and decisions for the whole country.

Related Bill

C-246

Quebec's Parliament Voice

This proposed law wanted to make sure Quebec always has a certain number of seats in the Canadian Parliament. It didn't pass, so things will stay the same. The number of seats each province has is based on population.

Introduced Feb 8, 2022·Last discussed Jun 8, 2022

Martin Champoux

Bloc Québécois

Did not
become law

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Yea (25)

Nay (180)

Paired (7)

Did not vote (128)

Did Not Vote (128)

Liberal: 73Conservative: 51Bloc Québécois: 3NDP: 1

Sima Acan (Liberal)

Fares Al Soud (Liberal)

Rebecca Alty (Liberal)

Scott Anderson (Conservative)

Carol Anstey (Conservative)

Chak Au (Conservative)

Roman Baber (Conservative)

Burton Bailey (Conservative)

Karim Bardeesy (Liberal)

Buckley Belanger (Liberal)

Jim Bélanger (Conservative)

David Bexte (Conservative)

Patrick Bonin (Bloc Québécois)

Steven Bonk (Conservative)

Kathy Borrelli (Conservative)

Mark Carney (Liberal)

Ben Carr (Liberal)

Wade Chang (Liberal)

Rebecca Chartrand (Liberal)

Madeleine Chenette (Liberal)

Maggie Chi (Liberal)

Leslie Church (Liberal)

Braedon Clark (Liberal)

Sandra Cobena (Conservative)

Connie Cody (Conservative)

Paul Connors (Liberal)

Marianne Dandurand (Liberal)

John-Paul Danko (Liberal)

Fred Davies (Conservative)

Don Davies (NDP)

Mike Dawson (Conservative)

Kelly DeRidder (Conservative)

Alexis Deschênes (Bloc Québécois)

Guillaume Deschênes-Thériault (Liberal)

Caroline Desrochers (Liberal)

Kerry Diotte (Conservative)

Philip Earle (Liberal)

Doug Eyolfson (Liberal)

Jessica Fancy (Liberal)

Bruce Fanjoy (Liberal)

Stephen Fuhr (Liberal)

Anna Gainey (Liberal)

Vince Gasparro (Liberal)

Dalwinder Gill (Conservative)

Amarjeet Gill (Conservative)

Harb Gill (Conservative)

Sukhman Gill (Conservative)

Amanpreet Gill (Conservative)

Marilène Gill (Bloc Québécois)

Wade Grant (Liberal)

Will Greaves (Liberal)

Jason Groleau (Conservative)

Claude Guay (Liberal)

Michael Guglielmin (Conservative)

Mandy Gull-Masty (Liberal)

Aaron Gunn (Conservative)

Gabriel Hardy (Conservative)

Emma Harrison (Liberal)

Alana Hirtle (Liberal)

Vincent Ho (Conservative)

Tim Hodgson (Liberal)

Corey Hogan (Liberal)

Kurt Holman (Conservative)

Grant Jackson (Conservative)

Tamara Jansen (Conservative)

Jamil Jivani (Conservative)

Natilien Joseph (Liberal)

Arpan Khanna (Conservative)

Jeff Kibble (Conservative)

Rhonda Kirkland (Conservative)

Ernie Klassen (Liberal)

Helena Konanz (Conservative)

Tamara Kronis (Conservative)

Ned Kuruc (Conservative)

Linda Lapointe (Liberal)

Ginette Lavack (Liberal)

Steeve Lavoie (Liberal)

Andrew Lawton (Conservative)

Eric Lefebvre (Conservative)

Carlos Leitão (Liberal)

Branden Leslie (Conservative)

Michael Ma (Liberal)

Kent MacDonald (Liberal)

Jagsharan Singh Mahal (Conservative)

Shuvaloy Majumdar (Conservative)

Chris Malette (Liberal)

Gaétan Malette (Conservative)

Jacob Mantle (Conservative)

Jennifer McKelvie (Liberal)

David McKenzie (Conservative)

Jill McKnight (Liberal)

Stephanie McLean (Liberal)

Marie-Gabrielle Ménard (Liberal)

Costas Menegakis (Conservative)

Marjorie Michel (Liberal)

Shannon Miedema (Liberal)

Giovanna Mingarelli (Liberal)

Billy Morin (Conservative)

Rob Morrison (Conservative)

David Myles (Liberal)

Juanita Nathan (Liberal)

Chi Nguyen (Liberal)

Bienvenu-Olivier Ntumba (Liberal)

Dominique O'Rourke (Liberal)

Eleanor Olszewski (Liberal)

Tom Osborne (Liberal)

Nathalie Provost (Liberal)

Jacques Ramsay (Liberal)

Aslam Rana (Liberal)

Colin Reynolds (Conservative)

Gregor Robertson (Liberal)

Pauline Rochefort (Liberal)

Ellis Ross (Conservative)

Jonathan Rowe (Conservative)

Zoe Royer (Liberal)

Gurbux Saini (Liberal)

Abdelhaq Sari (Liberal)

Jake Sawatzky (Liberal)

Amandeep Sodhi (Liberal)

Evan Solomon (Liberal)

Charles Sousa (Liberal)

Eric St-Pierre (Liberal)

William Stevenson (Conservative)

Matt Strauss (Conservative)

Kristina Tesser Derksen (Liberal)

Louis Villeneuve (Liberal)

Tim Watchorn (Liberal)

John Zerucelli (Liberal)