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