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M.P.P.

• Member of Provincial Parliament.

  See also: M.L.A.  

  • In modern use confined largely to Ontario.

  • 1826  John J. Lafferty, Esq. M.P.P. was called to the chair. . . .
  • 1855  (1965)  How many Canadian M.P.P.'s could obtain third class certificates from the most lenient of our educational examination boards?
  • 1884  Instead of their proposing to take bribes for the sake of drawing out bribers, we are almost confident it will be proved that M.P.P.'s were willing to be bribed, if they only saw the cash coming.
  • 1918  A member of a provincial legislature employs the form M.P.P. (that is, Member of Provincial "Parliament"). It may be observed that we do not now apply the term "parliament" to a provincial legislature. Therefore, it would be more correct, if we wrote M.L. (Member of the Legislature) or M.P.L. (Member of Provincial Legislature), but these forms have never been adopted.
  • 1964  An MPP represents 3,566 people in P.E.I., while in Nova Scotia, he speaks for 17,720.