Talk:Legislative assemblies of Canadian provinces and territories

· Legislation Advantages ( not realistic)

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o possibility of greater creativity o possibility of greater certainty o possibility of better expertise o possibility of more accountability & transparency o more techniques of enforcement o policy-making forum

• Experience/reality • statute language often unintelligible • language often too narrow & no principles set out to guide change • little outside input • great difficulty in finding law • rationales often obscured • statutes often delegate authority with few guidelines • often very political re changes to criminal law • still no comprehensive codification of criminal law

Name of article

Given that three of the provincial/territorial legislatures are not actually called the "Legislative Assembly" shouldn't the title of this article be "Legislative assemblies of Canadian provinces and territories", since the title refers to the generic entity and not to a proper noun? --Skeezix1000 (talk) 17:42, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Reorganization of the table

The current layout, sorted by province is slightly confusing. Might I suggest that the table be sorted by period? With a section for current arrangements and a section for former arrangements? Within the sections, though, the sorting by province can be kept. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zacharycmango (talk • contribs) 22:55, 23 November 2020 (UTC)

Proposed name change

Given that the legislatures and legislative assemblies all have different names, I would propose moving this article to the generic Legislatures of Canadian provinces and territories. Andrew Yong (talk) 19:37, 14 April 2023 (UTC)

Composition Table is Ontario-centric

The order of the provinces and territories in the Composition table is not immediately apparent, certainly not for non-Canadian readers, and probably not for a lot of Canadian readers. It's based on population, which puts Ontario at the top of the list. The territories are at the bottom, which a non-Canadian reader would probably not understand. The result is an apparently random list, unless you happen to know the population rankings of the provinces, and the difference between provinces and territories, and the population rankings of the territories.

The order of the parties in the heading row is also Ontario-centric; it's based on which party has formed the government in Ontario, followed by the Opposition party in Ontario, then other parties.

I would suggest that alphabetical ordering is a more neutral approach, for both the order of the provinces and the order of the party names. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:04, 27 October 2024 (UTC)

No comments from anyone, so I went ahead and used alphabetical order for the provinces and territories, and for the parties in the columns. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 17:33, 2 November 2024 (UTC)