The status of the Federal Parties is determined by a national vote total. This NVT is the total of the popular vote for each party in the last 3 Federal elections. Official status is given to the top 4 on that list with the 5th and 6th placed Parties also given Official status if they got 5% of the vote in one of the last three elections.
NVT for the last 3 Federal elections of 2015 / 2019 / 2021
1 Liberals: 18,516,000 and got 5% in each of the last 3 elections.
2 Conservatives: 17,599,000 and 5% last 3 elections.
3 NDP: 9,408,000 and 5% last 3 elections.
4 Bloc: 3,509,000 and 5% in the last 2 elections did not get 5% in 2015.
5 Green: 2,187,000 and got 5% in 2019 but not 2015 and 2021.
6 People’s Party: 1,134,000 did not get 5% in last 3 elections. Only contested last 2 and almost reached the 5% threshold with 4.97% in the last vote.
Just for fun the 7th and 8th ranked parties by NVT.
7 Libertarian Party: 49,907 contested last 3 elections.
8 Christian Heritage Party: 43,118 contested last 3 elections.
There will be 4 to 6 Official Parties at any one time. Currently there are 5 being the Liberals, Conservatives, NDP, Bloc, and the Green Party. It will be the same 5 after the upcoming election unless the People’s party gets 5% of the vote then there will be 6 Official Parties.
The NDP Leader is running in a by-election in Burnaby south on February 25. There are two issues here, the one of Party Leaders running in by-elections in order to have a seat in the House of Commons, and the second of the calling of by-elections. I’ve suggested solutions to both in previous posts.
Wasn’t he suppose to clean this up? A government reform to end this sort of reoccurring nonsense is to have an departmental budgetary allowance for all parts of government. Each department, agency, or part of government has a monthly allowance that increases at the rate of inflation. The department of defence could start with a monthly allowance of $55,000,000,000 that gets raised each quarter to account for the inflation rate. The same would be true for all other departments and agencies like the EPA, NASA, and the like. Government bodies like the House of Representatives, the Senate, Supreme court, and the White House would also have a monthly budget to finance their operations. If a department shows their over budget for 12 consecutive months then that and only that department suffers a shutdown which imposes spending constraints as set forth in law. One of them should be no official gets paid more then the average national income which I believe is around $56,000 for the USA. Any official in the affected department that has a salary of more then $56,000 has that salary brought down to that amount for the duration of the shutdown until the department is no longer over budget.
The Federalist party of Canada 