There are 338 seats the House of Commons. There are 105 in the Senate, though this can be augmented temporarily by 4 or 8 seats if needed with the Queen's authorization. Parliament also includes the Crown, and thus has a "seat" (the Throne) for the Monarch or the Governor General.
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They have a house of representatives with no term limits. They have a bicameral system just like the federal government and many other similarities with it.
There are many types of legislature around the world. In the United States there are a few types of legislature. There is the Senate and the House of Representatives, both at the national and state level.
Founded in 1961, there have been times when Canada's New Democratic Party has been very influential in Parliament. Although it is usually the party with the third or fourth most number of seats, in 2011, the NDP had an exceptional election-- in fact, it ended up with the second most number of seats in Parliament (103). But that all changed in the 2015 elections, when the NDP lost 59 seats, causing it to fall back to third place, with only 44 seats total.
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