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MP (Canada)

41st Parliament of Canada
Majority parliament
June 2, 2011 – August 2, 2015
Parliament leaders
Prime
Minister

(cabinet)
Rt. Hon. Stephen Harper
(28th Canadian Ministry)
February 6, 2006 – November 4, 2015
Leader of the
Opposition
Hon. Jack Layton
May 2, 2011 – August 22, 2011 (His death)
Nycole Turmel
August 23, 2011 – March 23, 2012
Hon. Thomas Mulcair
March 24, 2012 – November 4, 2015
Party caucuses
Government Conservative Party
Opposition New Democratic Party
Third parties Liberal Party
Bloc Québécois*
Green Party*
Strength in Democracy*
Progressive Conservative*
* Party does not hold official party status.
† Only in the Senate.
House of Commons
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Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the
Commons
Hon. Andrew Scheer
June 2, 2011 – December 2, 2015
Government
House Leader
Hon. Peter Van Loan
May 18, 2011 – November 4, 2015
Opposition
House Leader
Hon. Thomas Mulcair
June 2, 2011 – October 14, 2011
Joe Comartin
October 14, 2011 – April 19, 2012
Nathan Cullen
April 20, 2012 – March 19, 2014
Peter Julian
March 20, 2014 – November 18, 2015
Members 308 MP seats
List of members
Senate
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Seating arrangements of the Senate
Speaker of the
Senate
Hon. Noël A. Kinsella
February 8, 2006 – November 27, 2014
Hon. Pierre Claude Nolin
November 27, 2014 – April 23, 2015
Hon. Leo Housakos
April 24, 2015 - August 2, 2015
Government
Senate Leader
Hon. Marjory LeBreton
February 6, 2006 – July 14, 2013
Claude Carignan
August 30, 2013 – November 4, 2015
Opposition
Senate Leader
Hon. Jim Cowan
November 3, 2008 – November 4, 2015
Senators 105 senator seats
List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch Elizabeth II
February 6, 1952 – present
Sessions
1st Session
June 2, 2011 – September 13, 2013
2nd Session
October 16, 2013 – August 2, 2015
<40th 42nd>

The 41st Canadian Parliament was in session from June 2, 2011 to August 2, 2015, with the membership of its House of Commons having been determined by the results of the 2011 federal election held on May 2, 2011. Parliament convened on June 2, 2011, with the election of Andrew Scheer as Speaker, followed the next day with the Speech from the Throne. There were two sessions in this Parliament. On August 2, 2015, Prime Minister Stephen Harper asked the Governor General to dissolve Parliament and issue the writ of election, leading to an 11-week election campaign period for the 2015 federal election.

The parliament's first session ran between June 2, 2011, and September 13, 2013, and saw 83 bills adopted. In June 2011, immediately following the election the first six bills were given royal assent. These were the enabling legislation for the 2011 Canadian federal budget, the Canada Post back-to-work legislation titled Restoring Mail Delivery for Canadians Act (Bill C-6), and the Fair and Efficient Criminal Trials Act (Bill C-2) authorizing federal judges to hear all pretrial motions at once during mega-trials.

When the parliament re-convened in September 2011, the Minister of Justice introduced the Safe Streets and Communities Act (Bill C-10), an omnibus bill of nine separate measures. Among the measures include replacing the pardon system with 'record suspensions', mandatory minimum sentences and/or penalties for certain drug and sexual offences, increasing prison sentences for marijuana offences, making it illegal to make sexually explicit information available to a child, reducing the ability of judges to sentence certain offenders to house arrest, allowing immigration officers to deny work permits to foreigners who are at risk of being sexually exploited, and enabling Canadians to sue state sponsors of terrorism for losses due to an act of terrorism. The bill was reviewed by the 'House Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights' throughout October and November, chaired by Oxford MP Dave MacKenzie and passed by the House of Commons on December 5, 2011, on a 157 to 127 vote, with only the Conservative Party voting in favour. The senate made six amendments and it was given royal assent on March 13, 2012.


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