Canada Parliament and House Commons

Green Party: That about 13 per cent of the then-308-member House of Commons, according to Globe and Mail. That proportion falls short of parity with our foreign-born population , but it comes quite close to matching the proportion of us who are foreign-born and Canadian citizens: 16 per cent. In the 2011 federal election, voters sent 42 foreign-born citizens to represent them as MPs in Ottawa. Remarkably, the immigrants who were elected to Canada Parliament in 2011 had not only become citizens, gotten themselves nominated and then won election – but they represented all five main political parties: 18 Conservatives , 18 New Democrats , four Liberals , and one each in the Bloc Québécois and the Green Party . The Green Party is 100-per-cent foreign-born: Elizabeth May is from Hartford, Conn. Only in Canada. The Bloc is dedicated to dismantling the country but managed to be inclusive of the foreign-born. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.