DCHP-2

Member of the Legislative Assembly member of the Legislative Assembly, member of the legislative assembly DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — Politics, Administration

  a politician elected to a provincial or territorial government.

  Type: 2. Preservation — Member of the Legislative Assembly was used in Britain as early as the beginning of the 19th century to refer to post-revolutionary French politicians, which makes the long form a preservation from British English usage. It is in use in some Australian states and in India, as well as in all Canadian provinces and territories except for Ontario (where the term is Member of Provincial Parliament), Quebec (Member of the National Assembly) and Newfoundland and Labrador (Member of the House of Assembly) (see Canadian Heritage reference). See the entry MLA for the abbreviation, which is most frequent in Canada today compared to other locations. The long term is, as Chart 1 shows, highly frequent in Canada compared with other former British colonies and only outnumbered by Australia.

  See also: legislative assembly  MLA  MPP  MNA