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<h1 class="post-title">Know How Your Representative Votes In Parliament</h1>
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<time datetime="20-07-30" class="post-date">Thursday, July 30 2020</time>
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<p>As an advocate for openness, I had an idea to make a project out of the government of Canada’s <a href="https://open.canada.ca/en/open-data">Open Data</a>
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initiative to take a look at how my local MP voted on various pieces of legislation.
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It turns out though that this was not necessary due to how easy it was to find this information on the government’s own website.
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In this article, I will explain how you can do the same.</p>
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<h3 id="1-find-your-representative">1. Find Your Representative</h3>
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<p>The first step in this process is to find who your representative is.
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To do so, go to the government’s own website
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<a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en">ourcommons.ca’s search tool</a>.</p>
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<p>Simply type in your postal code in the search box to find out who your MP is.</p>
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<h3 id="2-their-voting-record">2. Their Voting Record</h3>
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<p>Every MP’s voting record is public knowledge,
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and it is available nice and simple in a table on that MP’s page.
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For example, this is a link to
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<a href="https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/pierre-poilievre(25524)/votes">Pierre Poilievre’s voting record</a>.</p>
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<p>To find your MP’s voting record, do step one, then:
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After the <strong>Overview</strong>, and <strong>Seat in The House</strong> sections,
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there are three tabs, <strong>Roles</strong>, <strong>Work</strong>, and <strong>Contact</strong>.
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Click on work.
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At the bottom of that tab is a link which says <strong>Chamber Votes</strong>.
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This will open a small window with some recent votes by this politician.
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If you want to see all their votes, there is a button at the bottom named <strong>All Votes by This Member</strong>.</p>
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<p>Tada! You can now keep your local MP accountable for anything you do or do not support.</p>
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<h3 id="3-bill-details">3. Bill Details</h3>
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<p>If you want to get into the nitty gritty,
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once you open a specific bill, you can actually find out the status of said bill,
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or read the actual text by clicking the <strong>View this Bill on LEGISinfo</strong> button.</p>
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<p>Both the status of the bill, and a link to a PDF document containing the bilingual text of the bill are visible in the main body of the page.</p>
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<h4 id="conclusion">Conclusion</h4>
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<p>I thought this was pretty cool!
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It was <em>way</em> simpler than I thought it would be.</p>
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<p>Thanks, Canada!</p>
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