Talk:Legislative Assembly of Ontario

message: Anyone working on revising the seating plan chart with the recent by-election wins of Johnson, and Hoskins and the changes to the leadership?  Jonathan (talk) 20:04, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revisions of Seating plan chart 

message: Still in contrast, having the lower proportion of representatives for person. Wherever the British traditional system is not satisfactory any more ,the proportional representation isn’t ether  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.197.95.10 (talk) 20:52, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  With 107 member it is the largest Provincial Parliament in Canada(Quebec out). 

message: If Ontario has alway's had a unicameral legislature, where does the Lieutenant Governor give the Throne Speech?  Does s/he actually enter the debating chamber? (Alphaboi867 02:44, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speech from the Throne 

message: Looking over the official Hansard, I've discovered that the Legislative Assembly of Ontario held an unusual number of thirty-minute bells during its evening session of June 7, 2004 -- including two consecutive bells between 10:00 and 11:00 pm.  No formal explanation was given for this unusual turn of events, although it may not have been entirely coincidental that the final game of the 2004 Stanley Cup Playoffs was taking place at the same time.
I would refer readers in particular to Marilyn Churley's comments after the legislature formally resumed:
While I was reflecting on my earlier comments, I was watching the end of the hockey game. I have to say that we're very sad. Calgary just lost. I don't know, Speaker, if you had an opportunity to leave the chair and see, but they lost. But we do want to congratulate both teams on games well played. It was a pleasure to see all the great hockey being played up until tonight. Again, I just want to congratulate Calgary -- yay, team -- for playing a good game. There you go.
I'm looking forward now to getting into baseball, which for me is more of a spring-summer kind of game anyway. It's kind of weird playing hockey in the middle of summer, with the weather in Florida, what, over 80 degrees or something.
Mr Speaker, I will have an opportunity to have a few more comments about the bill before us in my two-minute summary.
If anyone who follows this discussion page plans to watch tonight's game, if might be worthwhile to turn to the Legislative Assembly channel every twenty minutes or so to see if they'll do something similar this year.  CJCurrie 22:59, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Something amusing

message: I see we have a vacancy listed, but has Cordiano actually resigned yet?  My understanding is that he decided to stand down from cabinet, but is keeping his seat for the time being.  CJCurrie 00:26, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbers

message: Hi, I have never contributed to an article and thought I would give it a try. Please have a look at this material and tell me what you think.
I would also like to add a short section on the Office of Assembly (the professional/administrative section of the Legislature as well as the Legislative Library).
Please tell me what you think.
Tibby68 15:31, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Information 

message: I have changed the importance rating of this article to "High", which is on par with the articles about the Legislatures of AB, BC, MB and NT, as well as the Provincial Premiers.  PKT (talk) 17:34, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment 

message: I propose that Parliament of Ontario be merged into Legislative Assembly of Ontario.  The correct article title can be debated, but it is clear that both articles currently refer to the same entity.
Set theorist (talk) 06:20, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, and Legislative Assembly of Ontario is the actual name.  --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:09, 9 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I see what the problem is.  The Parliament of Ontario was formerly a list of the legislative sessions in Ontario since 1867, and it formed part of a series of similar lists for other provinces.  The lead paragraphs for these lists were somewhat awkwardly written, and it wasn't abundantly clear that there were main articles for each of the legislative assemblies.  At the end of 2013, one editor (who presumably did not appreciate that there were already main articles for each of the legislatures) in good faith changed the article titles and added content.  Unfortunately, it resulted in a series of duplicate articles.  I am going to move the list articles back to the original titles, keep some of the improved text but move most of it to the main legislative article.  As for article titles, I will stick to the longstanding names we have been using.  If anyone prefers Parliament of Ontario, etc., they can initiate a WP:RM.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 14:53, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I am not sure my assessment above was correct.  Parliament of Ontario *was* formerly a list of the legislative sessions in Ontario, and it was expanded to effectively become a duplicate of this article.  Unclear, but it might have been an awkward attempt to create an article for the Legislature of Ontario, comprised of the Lieutenant Governor and the Legislative Assembly.  Hard to tell with the edit summaries.  Really not evident that a separate article was required, since the previous sentence says just about everything there is to say about the Legislature, and it is already covered off in this article.  Anyway, it's fixed and should be far less confusing.  --Skeezix1000 (talk) 14:54, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

text: I get that.  But why "Parliament of Ontario"?  Where does that name come from?  The constitution refers to the Assembly + the LG as the Legislature. I don't mind adding a reference back but let's make sure it's the correct reference.  If I am missing something, please tell me, but I don't think we should be adding the Parliament reference back - Legislature of Ontario would be okay with me, though. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:19, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

text: I don't disagree that List of Ontario Legislative Assemblies might have issues - I just reverted it back because of the many above-noted problems with Parliament of Ontario.  List of Parliaments of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario might be better.--Skeezix1000 (talk) 21:23, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed the "Parliament of Ontario" reference in the infobox to "Legislature of Ontario", as per the Constitution. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:39, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Ontario is inconsistent in what it calls its legislature. When listing historical sittings it refers to "Parliaments", the members are called "MPPs", and there are plenty of times the Ontario Gazette uses phrases like "Parliamentary Notice" or "Applications to Provincial Parliament". But as you observe, "Legislature of Ontario" is also common. I get the impression that "Parliament" is the preferred term, but unless I find some official statement saying so, I guess we should use the language in the Constitution. —Arctic Gnome (talk • contribs) 05:12, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree that it is very inconsistent (especially historically - old postcards of Queen's Park often refer to the Parliament Buildings).  The members do call themselves MPPs, which is reflected in the article, but beyond that I am not aware of anything suggesting "Parliament of Ontario" is the preferred term, or even that it is the common term (such that we'd prefer it over the actual name) beyond the legislative sessions (which is not entirely the same thing).  If we are missing something, I have no doubt someone will come along and point us in the right direction. Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:16, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

text: The issue is not so much the Legislative Assembly, which clearly goes by that name, but rather the actual Legislature/Parliament, which is the combination of the Legislative Assembly and the Lieutenant-Governor.  The parallel would be to the Parliament of Canada, which consists of the House of Commons, the Senate and the Governor General (User:Miesianiacal would correct me here, and note that it is the Monarch as represented by the GG).  --Skeezix1000 (talk) 15:03, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem of duplicate articles / Merger proposal with [[Parliament of Ontario]] 

message: Why is there no section on the historical makeup of the of the assembly? brill (talk) 17:46, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical makeup 

message: This timeline is an exact copy of this timeline. I propose a redirect from Legislative Assembly of Ontario to 41st Parliament of Ontario for that section. sikander (talk) 15:40, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect timeline? 

message: Doug Ford is leader of the PC Party, NOT Leader of the Opposition. Since he does not hold a seat, it is impossible for him to hold that position. Vic Fedeli still holds that position, and unless Ford names someone else (which he has stated he won't), Fedeli will most likely hold that until the results of the next election, where the leader of the second party (if they are elected) will most likely become Leader of the Opposition. Do not place Doug Ford in the infobox under this position. RoyalObserver (talk) 20:04, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox Leader of the Opposition 

message: "The motto "Audi Alteram Partem" is one of a series of Latin phrases carved in the Chamber of the Legislative Building. It challenges Members of Provincial Parliament to "Hear the Other Side," an objective which is rendered impossible, because the Westminster system results in a government best characterized as an elected dictatorship.[4]"
This seems to be a bit POV for wikipedia. 
Thoughts? TimeEngineer (talk) 15:49, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, that's definitely too POV, and also not entirely true, since a minority government must "hear the other side" to get anything done really, and majority governments even will sometimes "hear the other side" if there is much public opposition to something they are doing. UmpireRay (talk) 16:14, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Moreover, the cited source does not qualify as a reliable source. Mindmatrix 18:37, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriate statment