21/9/2014 Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Upon the dissolution of the 39th Canadian Parliament, 65 of the 308 seats (21.1 per cent) were held by women. Canada ranks 45th in the world in representation of women in the national lower house. There were 64 women elected to Parliament in the 2006 election, and the victory of Bloc Québécois MP Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac in a byelection on September 17, 2007 brought the number to 65. This matched but did not exceed the all-time record of 65 female MPs elected in the 2004 election, and the number of women in the House returned to 64 with the resignation of Lucienne Robillard on January 25, 2008. It nominally increased to a record 66 with the by-election wins of Martha Hall Findlay and Joyce Murray on March 17, 2008, although the resignation of Brenda Chamberlain from the House effective April 7, 2008 reduced the number of women back to 65 just one week after Findlay and Murray were sworn in as MPs. Contents 1 General notes 2 By province 3 By party 4 Cabinet 5 Senate 6 List of women MPs by province 6.1 Newfoundland and Labrador 6.2 Nova Scotia 6.3 Prince Edward Island 6.4 New Brunswick 6.5 Quebec 6.6 Ontario 6.7 Manitoba 6.8 Saskatchewan 6.9 Alberta 6.10 British Columbia 6.11 Territories 7 See also 8 External links General notes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_39th_Canadian_Parliament 1/9 21/9/2014 Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Fifteen of the 65 female MPs in the 39th Parliament, or 23.4 per cent, were elected for the first time in the 2006 election. The longest-serving female MPs were the Liberals Albina Guarnieri and Diane Marleau, both elected for the first time in the 1988 election. (New Democrat Dawn Black was also elected for the first time in that election; defeated in the 1993 election, she won her seat back in the 2006 election.) From Confederation to the end of the 39th Parliament, a total of 193 female MPs sat in the Canadian House of Commons, 4.79 per cent of the 4,023 total MPs ever to serve. The 65 female MPs upon dissolution of the 39th Parliament constitute 33.6 per cent of this total. The percentage of women in the House has remained more or less stable since 1993. By province Number of women Number of Percentage of Province MPs seats women Newfoundland and 0 7 0% Labrador Nova Scotia 1 11 9.1% Prince Edward Island 0 4 0% New Brunswick 0 10 0% Quebec 23 75 30.6% Ontario 23 106 21.7% Manitoba 4 14 28.6% Saskatchewan 2 14 14.3% Alberta 2 28 7.1% British Columbia 10 36 27.7% Territories 1 3 33.3% Totals 65 308 21.1% By party Women were 23.3 per cent of all candidates in the 2006 election, and 24.8 per cent of candidates from the parties that won representation in Parliament. The NDP nominated the largest proportion of women: more than a third of all New Democratic candidates were women, and nearly a third of all female candidates in the election were New Democrats. Furthermore, the NDP ended up with a higher proportion of women in its caucus than women candidates, meaning it ran women in ridings they could win – 18.8% of female MPs are New Democrats while the NDP holds only 9.4% of the seats in the House. As of 2007, the 12 women and 18 men currently sitting as New Democrats constitute the most gender-balanced party caucus ever elected to the Canadian House of Commons by a party with official party status. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_39th_Canadian_Parliament 2/9 21/9/2014 Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia However, it was with the Bloc Québécois that women candidates had the highest chance of winning: nearly three quarters of female Bloc candidates were elected. (As the Bloc runs candidates only in Quebec, the election of 50 Bloc MPs meant that any Bloc candidate had a 66.6% chance of winning.) 26.6% of female MPs are Bloquistes, while the Bloc holds only 16.2% of the seats. As for the winning party, only 12% of Conservative candidates were women, and 11% of Conservative MPs are women, a total of fourteen; 21.5% of female MPs are Tories in a House that is 40.6% Conservative. Percentage Percentage Current Number Number of of women number Current Percentage Party of female of candidates candidates of number of women candidates candidates who are to be female of MPs women elected MPs Conservative 38 308 12.3% 36.8% 14 126 11.1% Liberal 79 308 25.6% 26.6% 21 96 21.8% Bloc 23 75 30.7% 73.91% 18 49 36.7% Québécois NDP 108 308 35.1% 11.1% 12 30 40.0% Green 72 308 23.4% 0% 0 1 0% Other 60 327 18.3% 0% 1 3 33.3% Totals 380 1 634 23.3% 16.8% 65 308 21.1% Cabinet The 27-member Cabinet contains six women ministers (22%), including one senator. Of the 25 parliamentary secretaries, five (20%) are women. Ten of the fourteen female government MPs (71%) are ministers or parliamentary secretaries. Senate The 105-seat Senate currently has 90 sitting senators, of whom 32 (35.5%) are women. Stephen Harper has only made two Senate appointments to date, both men (Michael Fortier and Bert Brown). The previous prime minister, Paul Martin, made 17 Senate appointments, of whom six (35.3%) were women. Two current Senators are members of the Cabinet; as noted above, one of them is a woman, Marjory LeBreton. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_39th_Canadian_Parliament 3/9 21/9/2014 Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Name Party Province (Division) Raynell Andreychuk Conservative Saskatchewan Lise Bacon Liberal Quebec (De la Durantaye) Catherine Callbeck Liberal Prince Edward Island Pat Carney Conservative British Columbia Sharon Carstairs Liberal Manitoba Andrée Champagne Conservative Quebec (Grandville) Maria Chaput Liberal Manitoba Ethel Cochrane Conservative Newfoundland and Labrador Joan Cook Liberal Newfoundland and Labrador Anne Cools Independent Ontario (Toronto-Centre-York) Jane Cordy Liberal Nova Scotia Lillian Dyck Independent NDP Saskatchewan (North Battleford) Joyce Fairbairn Liberal Alberta (Lethbridge) Joan Fraser Liberal Quebec (De Lorimier) Céline Hervieux-Payette Liberal Quebec (Bedford) Libbe Hubley Liberal Prince Edward Island Mobina Jaffer Liberal British Columbia Janis Johnson Conservative Manitoba (Winnipeg - Interlake) Marjory LeBreton Conservative Ontario Rose-Marie Losier-Cool Liberal New Brunswick (Tracadie) Sandra Lovelace Nicholas Liberal New Brunswick Elaine McCoy Progressive Conservative Alberta (Calgary) Pana Merchant Liberal Saskatchewan Lorna Milne Liberal Ontario (Peel County) Lucie Pépin Liberal Quebec (Shawinigan) Marie Poulin Liberal Ontario Vivienne Poy Liberal Ontario (Toronto) Pierrette Ringuette Liberal New Brunswick Nancy Ruth Conservative Ontario (Toronto) Mira Spivak Independent Manitoba (Manitoba) Claudette Tardif Liberal Alberta (Edmonton) Marilyn Trenholme Counsell Liberal New Brunswick List of women MPs by province http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_39th_Canadian_Parliament 4/9 21/9/2014 Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Note: † indicates a cabinet minister, and * indicates a parliamentary secretary. Newfoundland and Labrador None Nova Scotia Name Party Riding Alexa McDonough NDP Halifax Prince Edward Island None New Brunswick None Quebec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_39th_Canadian_Parliament 5/9 21/9/2014 Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Name Party Riding Vivian Barbot Bloc Québécois Papineau France Bonsant Bloc Québécois Compton—Stanstead Sylvie Boucher* Conservative Beauport—Limoilou Diane Bourgeois Bloc Québécois Terrebonne—Blainville Paule Brunelle Bloc Québécois Trois-Rivières Claude DeBellefeuille Bloc Québécois Beauharnois—Salaberry Nicole Demers Bloc Québécois Laval Johanne Deschamps Bloc Québécois Laurentides—Labelle Meili Faille Bloc Québécois Vaudreuil—Soulanges Raymonde Folco Liberal Laval—Les Îles Carole Freeman Bloc Québécois Châteauguay—Saint-Constant Christiane Gagnon Bloc Québécois Québec Monique Guay Bloc Québécois Rivière-du-Nord Marlene Jennings Liberal Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine Francine Lalonde Bloc Québécois La Pointe-de-l'Île Carole Lavallée Bloc Québécois Saint-Bruno—Saint-Hubert Maria Mourani Bloc Québécois Ahuntsic Pauline Picard Bloc Québécois Drummond Lucienne Robillard ‡ Liberal Westmount—Ville-Marie Caroline St-Hilaire Bloc Québécois Longueuil—Pierre-Boucher Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac ‡ Bloc Québécois Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot Louise Thibault Independent Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques Josée Verner† Conservative Louis-Saint-Laurent ‡ Ève-Mary Thaï Thi Lac was elected to the House in a by-election on September 17, 2007. Lucienne Robillard resigned from the House on January 25, 2008. Ontario http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_39th_Canadian_Parliament 6/9 21/9/2014 Women in the 39th Canadian Parliament - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Name Party Riding Sue Barnes Liberal London West Colleen Beaumier Liberal Brampton West Carolyn Bennett Liberal St. Paul's Bonnie Brown Liberal Oakville Brenda Chamberlain ‡ Liberal Guelph Chris Charlton NDP Hamilton Mountain Olivia Chow NDP Trinity—Spadina Pat Davidson Conservative Sarnia—Lambton Ruby Dhalla Liberal Brampton—Springdale Diane Finley† Conservative Haldimand—Norfolk Cheryl Gallant Conservative Renfrew—Nipissing—Pembroke Albina Guarnieri Liberal Mississauga East—Cooksville Helena Guergis* Conservative Simcoe—Grey Martha Hall Findlay ‡ Liberal Willowdale Susan Kadis Liberal Thornhill Diane Marleau Liberal Sudbury Irene Mathyssen NDP London—Fanshawe Maria Minna Liberal Beaches—East York Peggy Nash NDP Parkdale—High Park Bev Oda† Conservative Durham Yasmin Ratansi Liberal Don Valley East Karen Redman Liberal Kitchener Centre Judy Sgro Liberal York West Belinda Stronach Liberal Newmarket—Aurora ‡ Martha Hall Findlay was elected to the House in a by-election on March 17, 2008.