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Easy Access Mass MP E-mail Addresses
Why write to one MP when you can write to them ALL. It would be great if this site grouped the e-mail addresses or all MP's by Province so that any citizen can simply 'copy and paste' them as a group into the TO line of an e-mail, without having to hunt and peck through all their websites and having to key them in one at a time.
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show voting record for all bills, even if historical
some older bills do not have voting record and it is hard to find them if you are not a good researcher. it is interesting to know who voted for what, so I propose that you (if you can and if you please) add voting record of MPs on all historical votes on openparliament. the data is found on the Lib of parliament.
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Enter a Twitter Link on Your Website Page so it would be easier to share this great site!
I find most of the time if you just enter a URL in a tweet it doesn't show in the stream. It would be so much easier for people to share your website if you had a twitter share button built right into your website page!
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Track how members of parliament voted and didn't vote
I believe that people should know how their MP voted and didn't vote so MPs be held accountable for laws that either they supported or didn't support and people can decide on Election Day whatever if their MP gets to keep their job or not.
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For each vote, indicate how the parties have whipped the vote. Ideally, have the feature indicate which MPs have dissented.
For each vote, indicate whether the vote is a one-line (free), two-line (cabinet), or three-line (whipped) vote for each party for which an MP votes.
This would make identifying dissenters easier. An advanced version of the feature would actually indicate the dissenters.
This is really important for MP democratic representation as opposed to party discipline.31 votes -
How many MPs have their riding in their heat map, and to what extent
How many MPs are actively engaged in their own home riding based on word heat maps? Looking at the heat maps, I see a number of MPs with low to no reference to their riding in their heat map. There are a few that look to be quite active locally. I realize Ministers will show more to their Ministry but I would think that all should have some level of reference to issues within their riding.
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Add coverage of the Senate
THERE SHOULD BE A WHOLE SEPARATE SECTION FOR THEM! DEBATES, VOTES, SENATORS, COMMITTEES, ETC!
Those ladies and gentlemen work in the same building, we should be looking at what they're doing as well!
And I suggest possibly adding third section on the projects they work together on, such as the Library of Parliament.
Thanks
25 votesThe Senate is relatively low on my priority list for a couple of reasons. First, of course, it’s a much less powerful & politically relevant body than the House. And it’s also well behind the House in terms of technology: their data isn’t nearly as structured or sophisticated as the House’s, which makes automated coverage difficult.
But of course I’m interested to see how many people would want Senate information.
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Adjust postal code search with changes in the latest boundary adjustments (2011)
I am in an area where I am impacted by the adjustments of 2011. When I entered my postal code, I was linked with my previous MP.
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Track similar/identical bills and link them together.
Some bills may expire before being passed or be defeated, but be reintroduced as basically the same thing. It can be hard keeping them straight, so it would be great if we could trace them forward and back. i.e. C-32/C-11, or C-54/C-30
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Add section for bills that recently came into effect
It would be useful if you could add a new section on the Bills page for those that have recently come into effect. Thanks for your great work!
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Have a running total of how all the parties and independents voted on each bill.
Example:
Bill C-44: An Act to amend the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Act and other Acts
Short Title: Protection of Canada from Terrorists ActCPC LPC NDP Bloc GPC Force indp TotalNV: 17 10 17 1 0 1 1 47
Yes: 146 25 0 0 1 1 1 174
No: 0 0 78 0 1 0 2 811 vote -
Provide a diff of the acts changed by a bill
It would be awesome to see the changes a bill makes in some type of online interface. Something like it commonly done for code.
Eg: http://markdotto.com/uploads/2014/09/github-split-diffs-v1.png
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City government councils tracked here as well
I would like this type of information for my city as well. I want to be able to see how my current Councillor has voted on all legislation that was put forward for a vote. I would like to be able to search on a topic and see what the reps have said. etc.
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List different search filters available.
I can't seem to find a full list of the available search filters (ie: text:)
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Create a poll for website users to vote by riding on each proposed bill
This would encourage accountability of MPs. It would inform voters as to whether their MP is listening to them. It would promote a participatory democracy, one in which consensus is built through dialogue.
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75 votes
This is among the most popular requests, but unfortunately there’s no current way to do this short of having someone on Parliament Hill do a count. I can and do report when a member doesn’t vote, but we’re unable to tell the difference between an absence and an abstention, and many days there simply aren’t any votes in the House. There’s been some noise about having Parliament release attendance records (which are currently self-reported by the parties but not made public), but at the moment those records simply don’t exist.
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I would like to help add more contact info for MPs (Facebook/LinkedIN/Google+/YouTube))
A great website! It would be great for users to be able to help you update the profiles with more contact info. MPs have facebook profiles and Pages, Google+ profiles and pages, YouTube account(s), sometimes multiple Twitter accounts, LinkedIN profile. And perhaps a link to the Elections Canada Map. (i can help with this, you don't need to enter the data, have most of it on my blog http://unschedulecannabis.blogspot.ca I just need a field to be able to enter it in, then you can verrify it's accuracy (or users can help with it's accuracy)
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