About Tabled

• openparliament.ca for MPs, recorded votes and how each MP voted. Tabled would not exist without this project by Michael Mulley; please credit it too.
• LEGISinfo, Parliament’s official bill tracker, for bill status, stages, dates, sponsors and links to the bill text.
• House of Commons open data to cross-check every vote. When the two disagree, Tabled uses the official House record (this affected 6 votes in the latest update).
• Represent by Open North to match postal codes to ridings.

Data is refreshed daily. The current snapshot was taken October 13, 2026. Tabled covers the current session of Parliament (45-1). Senate votes are not included.

Party position

On each recorded vote, a party’s position is whichever side most of its voting MPs took. MPs who were paired or did not vote are left out. If a party’s MPs split exactly evenly, it has no position on that vote. A party needs at least two MPs voting to have a position, so a party with one MP never has one.

Voted with party (party-line rate)

The share of an MP’s yea or nay votes that matched their party’s position. Only votes where their party had a position count. Independents have no rate. The party is the one the MP belonged to on the day of the vote.

Broke ranks

A yea or nay vote that went against the MP’s party position on that vote.

Split votes

Votes where a party’s MPs voted on both sides. Sometimes this is a free vote, where a party lets its MPs vote as they choose; sometimes it is individual MPs breaking ranks. Tabled flags these votes but does not guess which is which.

Votes cast

Yea and nay votes cast, out of all recorded votes held while the MP was sitting. Paired MPs (two MPs on opposite sides who agree to both stay out) are counted as not casting a vote. Missing a recorded vote has many legitimate causes: committee work, travel for the job, illness, family leave or constituency duties. It is not a measure of how hard an MP works.

Cohesion

The average party-line rate of a party’s current MPs.

Bill summaries are written by an AI model (Anthropic’s Claude or OpenAI’s GPT) from official sources, and every one is labelled as AI-generated and names the model used. The model is given, in order of preference, the bill summary published on LEGISinfo, the full text of the bill, or LEGISinfo’s description. If only a bill’s title is available, no summary is written.

Each summary is checked automatically before it is published: it must follow a fixed structure, stay short, avoid loaded words like “controversial” or “historic”, and describe what the bill does rather than judge it. Claims are attributed (“the government says”). Summaries are only rewritten when the official text changes.

The official text is always the authority, and is linked from every bill page.

A bill must pass the same stages in both the House of Commons and the Senate, in the same words, then receive royal assent. Most bills start in the House; some start in the Senate and follow the same path in reverse.

1. First reading · House of Commons

   The bill is introduced in the House of Commons and printed so MPs can read it. There is no debate and no vote on what it says yet.

2. Second reading · House of Commons

   MPs debate the main idea of the bill. If a majority votes in favour, the bill moves on to a committee for a closer look.

3. Committee · House of Commons

   A small group of MPs studies the bill line by line. They can hear from experts and the public, and they can propose changes (amendments).

4. Report stage · House of Commons

   The committee reports back to the whole House. All MPs can now debate and vote on changes to specific parts of the bill.

5. Third reading · House of Commons

   The final debate and vote in the House of Commons on the bill as a whole. If it passes, the bill goes to the Senate.

6. First reading · Senate

   The bill is introduced in the Senate and printed. There is no debate yet.

7. Second reading · Senate

   Senators debate the main idea of the bill. If they agree with it in principle, it goes to a Senate committee.

8. Committee · Senate

   A Senate committee studies the bill in detail, hears from witnesses and can recommend amendments.

9. Third reading · Senate

   The Senate's final vote on the bill. If senators changed it, the House must agree to the changes before it can become law.

10. Royal assent · Royal assent

    The Governor General formally approves the bill on behalf of the King. It is now law, though some parts may only take effect on a later date.

Government bills and private members’ bills

Government bills are introduced by ministers and carry out the government's agenda. They get reserved debate time and almost always pass when the government holds a majority of votes. Private members' bills are introduced by MPs who are not ministers. Their place in line is decided by a random draw, debate time is limited, and many never reach a vote. A bill marked "outside the order of precedence" has been introduced but has not yet been drawn for debate.

Tabled is not affiliated with Parliament, any party or any advocacy group. It does not endorse or oppose any bill or MP. Party colours appear only in charts and small labels, and parties are always listed in order of seats held. If you see wording that seems to take a side, please report it.

Found something wrong? Open an issue on GitHub with the page and what the correct information is. Tabled is open source under the MIT licence; the code is at github.com/yasher3413/tabled.

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