Period B For Learning House of Commons Glossary Definitions June 11

Make entries: 6

"Like the Senate, the House of Commons is part of Parliament. However, it is the most powerful branch of Parliament."

Look up the following positions and define them:

1. Members of Parliament (MPs)

2. Speaker of the House (list who the current one is)

3. Prime Minister (list who the current one is)

4. Cabinet Ministers

5. Leader of the Official Opposition (list who the current one is)

6. Shadow Cabinet

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1.A member of parliament (MP) is the representative in parliament of the people who live in their electoral district. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, this term refers only to members of the lower house since upper house members often have a different title.

2.By custom and House rules, the speaker is the political and parliamentary leader of the House and is simultaneously its presiding officer, de facto leader of the body's majority party, and the institution's administrative head.

3.A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system.

4.It is the body of ministerial advisors that sets the federal government's policies and priorities for the country.

5.The Leader of the Opposition is a title traditionally held by the leader of the largest political party not in government, typical in countries utilizing the parliamentary system form of government.

6.A group of members of the principal political party in opposition that are chosen as counterparts of members of the government who hold cabinet positions.