Talk:Legislative Assembly of Ontario
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To Fat pig73: Please don't de-link the names of members -- it will just create more re-linking work once their biographies are written. CJCurrie 04:31, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] By-election results
It's available on the Elections Ontario website - live. With about half of polls reporting (8:50 pm), John Tory has about 56%, the nearest competitor around 17%. Safe to say he has been elected.
[edit] Speech from the Throne
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))
- In PEI and Saskatchwan, the Lt. Governor does enter the chamber for the Throne Speech and for granting Assent. But there is still a Black Rod who knocks at the chamber doors, requesting that His/Her Honour be allowed to enter the chamber. The cerimony is just the same as if there were a Legislative Council, except altered to reflect the fact that there isnt.
Im assuming that this is the nation-wide procedure. Keeperoftheseal 19:56, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Something amusing
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.[1] 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)
[edit] Numbers
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)
