January 22nd, 2014
A portrait of Canada's Senate in numbers: The Senate barely votes
In the first session of this Parliament there were 801 votes in the House of Commons. You can find out the results of these votes by visiting here, where you can even download the results as data.
We went through all Senate Journals since the election to create our own list of votes, since the Senate doesn’t have a list publicly available.
How many votes have there been in the Senate? Only 70.
What’s more, six of the 70 votes had to do with decisions for how many hours the Senate would sit, and 12 dealt with the ongoing Senate scandal.
Sober second thought? Not so much. The Senate is more than happy to let most government legislation through without even bothering to vote.
Number
Date
Bills or Motion
1
June 26, 2011
C-6
2
September 28, 2011
Senate Sittings
3
October 4, 2011
Senate Sittings
4
October 5, 2011
Government Motion No. 11
5
October 5, 2011
Senate Sittings
6
October 18, 2011
Government Motion No. 11
7
October 18, 2011
Senate Sittings
8
November 17, 2011
C-18
9
November 22, 2011
C-18
10
December 15, 2011
C-18
11
March 1, 2012
C-10
12
March 1, 2012
C-10
13
March 1, 2012
C-10
14
March 15, 2012
C-33
15
April 3, 2012
C-19
16
April 4, 2012
C-19
17
April 24, 2012
S-6
18
May 31, 2012
C-39
19
June 21, 2012
C-38
20
June 21, 2012
C-38
21
June 26, 2012
C-31
22
June 26, 2012
C-31
23
June 27, 2012
C-31
24
June 28, 2012
C-38
25
June 28, 2012
C-38
26
June 29, 2012
C-11
27
June 29, 2012
C-11
28
June 29, 2012
C-38
29
June 29, 2012
C-11
30
October 2, 2012
Komagata Maru motion
31
October 17, 2012
S-11
32
November 6, 2012
Invitation to witnesses on CCSVI
33
December 4, 2012
S-10
34
December 4, 2012
Committee studing into charities
35
December 10, 2012
S-12
36
December 13, 2012
C-45
37
December 13, 2012
C-45
38
December 14, 2012
C-45
39
March 21, 2013
C-27
40
March 25, 2013
C-27
41
March 26, 2013
C-27
42
May 7, 2013
C-377
43
May 28, 2013
Report on expenses
44
May 30, 2013
C-43
45
June 4, 2013
C-42
46
June 13, 2013
C-15
47
June 17, 2013
C-304
48
June 17, 2013
C-304
49
June 17, 2013
C-304
50
June 25, 2013
C-316
51
June 26, 2013
C-377
52
June 26, 2013
C-377
53
June 26, 2013
C-377
54
June 26, 2013
C-377
55
June 26, 2013
C-377
56
June 26, 2013
C-304
57
June 26, 2013
C-304
58
June 26, 2013
C-304
59
October 28, 2013
Brazeau Suspension
60
October 29, 2013
Brazeau Suspension
61
October 30, 2013
Brazeau Suspension
62
October 30, 2013
Wallin Suspension
63
October 30, 2013
Duffy Syspension
64
November 4, 2013
Brazeau, Duffy, Wallin suspensions Government motion No. 5
65
November 5, 2013
Brazeau, Duffy, Wallin suspensions Government motion No. 6
66
November 5, 2013
Brazeau Suspension
67
November 5, 2013
Duffy Suspension
68
November 5, 2013
Wallin Suspension
69
December 4, 2013
Runia Motion
70
December 12, 2013
C-4