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bicameralismA bicameral
parliament
is one which has two
chambers
, a lower house and an upper
house. The lower house is often called the legislative
assembly or house of assembly and, in
parliamentary systems
, is the house where the
government
is formed. The Canadian
parliament is bicameral with the non-elected Senate as the upper
house, the House of Commons as the lower house.
British Columbia has always had a unicameral parliament, with
its single chamber known as the
legislative assembly
. Some
provinces joined confederation with upper houses but all of these
have since been abolished, the last being Quebec’s
Legislative Council in 1968.
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