Talk:Party standings in the Canadian Senate
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[edit] appointment breakdown
I've ordered this by number of senators appointed. It's a question weather to do it by that, or by cronological order, but I think this way is best as the number of senators is more important to the senate's party standing which is the objective of this page. Pellaken 12:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] seat "picture" graph
I seem to be the one who's mostly updating this, if I want to make any major changes to it, I'll run it by everyone here first. Pellaken 12:51, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] suggested edit, sept 28th 2005
I know the senate uses different rules, but there is a generally accepted practice in the house of commons on how to assign seats to parties. The government goes first, and fills up as many seats as possible, starting at the speaker, on the government's site. You can see this federally where the Liberals, in minority, dont reach the end. The official opposition starts in the center of thier benches, across from the PM, and then they get one or two rows to the left of the opposition leader, then they fill up as many seats as they can, towards the speaker. If all are filled, then they continue to fill seats, away from the speaker. the 3rd largest party goes beside the official opposition, so on and so forth. If the government has more seats then its row can hold, it starts, at the speaker on the opposition benches, and goes down. prior to the 04 election this was how everyone sat, I'm sure we can all remember Joe Clark sitting in the corner of the opposition benches, surronded by Liberals. After the 1997 election the Reform Party was actually not able to hold seats in the middle and extend towards the speaker, so the rule was modified and the PC Party actually sat between Reform and the Liberals for most of that session. I beleive that the senate's graphic here can be edited to that effect. This is what it would look like:
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is there general approval to do this? If I dont hear any protests within a few days I will update it like so. The drawback is that it gets farther and farther from the actual seating plan, but I would contend that since there is a link directly below this little graphic leading to both the wiki-page seating plan, AND the official Parliament PDF seating plan, that this should negate the effect, and therefore, this (which IS titled as a graphical representation of the seating plan) should be more used to represent and show standings, then actual seating placements.
Pellaken 13:08, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Sources
Are we starting to source all deaths and retirements? I'd like to know beforehand as quite often other pages get edited first, namley the canadian senate page, and its hours before this one does. excuse me for feeing a little singled out when those edits are not reverted and mine are when I cannot ever recall being asked on wikipedia to prove that a canadian senator has died. Since I've come back here, both logged in and logged out, I've had both my edits reverted in entirity. Really I dont have to update this page at all, even though I A - make edits more often then anyone else, B - conciously try to have this page updated, visiting it four or more times a day, and C - seem to be the only one who know's how / wants to update the seat chart and seating plan. Anyways, I'm done ranting. I'm a 4th year Poli Sci student, and of the 20 or so projects I've written to this point, half of them have been about the senate. Dare I say that I know more about the senate then anyone who is reading this? I wont, but I could... Pellaken 00:35, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Nancy Ruth
Senator Nancy Ruth today joined the Conservative caucus. Could someone with far more wiki skill than I update this page? PoliSciMaster 19:57, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
