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MP Stats

I don’t remember how I found it, but it soon popped up on Nealenews and everyone started to talk about it. It’s a great resource for Canadian democracy and it sheds light on some interesting facts that would otherwise remain buried. Howdtheyvote.ca is a smart and sophisticated website that assembles Hansard data and processes it to help inform the Canadian voter.

I’ve been combing through the website and I’ve already found a few interesting facts.

Most words spoken in the House – Paul Szabo, LIB – 107873 words

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Least words spoken in the House – Claudette Bradshaw, LIB – 0 words (she’s even a government minister!)

Maverick MPs (most often go against party line, # dissentions):

Dan McTeague, LIB – 21

Paul Steckle, LIB – 21

Tom Wappel, LIB – 21

Raymond Bonin, LIB – 19

Charles Hubbard, LIB – 19

Gurbax Malhi, LIB – 18

Alan Tonks, LIB – 17

Rose-Marie Ur, LIB – 17

Roger Gallaway, LIB – 16

Jim Karygiannis, LIB – 16

Lawrence MacAulay, LIB – 16

Ken Boshcoff, LIB – 15

Most absences

Chuck Cadman, IND (cancer) – 142

David Chatters, CPC (cancer) – 107

Darrel Stinson, CPC (cancer) – 101

Carolyn Parrish, IND – 79

Gurmant Grewal, CPC – 62

Best attendence records (0 absences)

Ethel Blondin-Andrew, LIB

Francoise Boivin, LIB

Marc Godbout, LIB

Michel Guimond, BQ

Mark Holland, LIB

Richard Marceau, BQ

Stephen Owen, LIB

Karen Redman, LIB

Todd Russell, LIB

David Smith, LIB

Brent St. Denis, LIB

Alan Tonks, LIB

Tony Valeri, LIB

Bills written

Pat Martin, NDP – 23

Peter Stoffer, NDP – 18

David Chatters, CPC – 11

Peter MacKay, CPC – 11

Irwin Cotler, LIB – 10

Cabinet Ministers who have not yet written a bill:

Belinda Stronach, LIB

Lucienne Robillard, LIB

Stephen Owen, LIB

Joseph McGuire, LIB

John McCallum, LIB

Paul Martin, LIB

Tony Ianno, LIB

Bill Graham, LIB

John Godfrey, LIB

Joe Fontana, LIB

John Efford, LIB

Raymond Chan, LIB

Aileen Carroll, LIB

Scott Brison, LIB

Claudette Bradshaw, LIB

Ethel Blondin-Andrew, LIB

Carolyn Bennett, LIB

Conclusion: The award for the most overrated MP goes to Claudette Bradshaw.

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