Democratic Representation Act

An Act to amend the Constitution Act, 1867 (Democratic representation)

This bill is from the 40th Parliament, 3rd session, which ended in March 2011.

Sponsor

Steven Fletcher  Conservative

Status

Second reading (House), as of March 22, 2011
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill. The Library of Parliament has also written a full legislative summary of the bill.

This enactment amends the rules in the Constitution Act, 1867 for readjusting the number of members of the House of Commons and the representation of the provinces in that House.

Similar bills

C-20 (41st Parliament, 1st session) Law Fair Representation Act
C-22 (39th Parliament, 2nd session) Constitution Act, 2007 (Democratic representation)
C-56 (39th Parliament, 1st session) Constitution Act, 2007 (Democratic representation)

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from the Library of Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

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