If a group of crows is called a 'murder', an assembly of ferrets is a 'business' and a collection of owls is a 'parliament', what do you call a row of independent MPs? With the ejection of Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from the Liberal caucus this week, the number of independent MPs in the House of Commons has exploded. Those unrecognized parties are the Bloc Québécois (10 MPs), Greens (Elizabeth May) and the People's Party (Maxime Bernier). Parliament has seen plenty of caucuses divided against themselves, but such an Independent caucus would set a new bar for internal turmoil. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press)At the end of the last Parliament, the total number of Independents and MPs from unrecognized parties just ticked over the 12-seat threshold.

Source: CBC News April 06, 2019 09:00 UTC