Talk:Blake Desjarlais

Desjarlais' Current Office
Thanks for making this page! This is just a friendly heads-up that Desjarlais won't technically be the MP for Edmonton Griesbach until the Chief Electoral Officer has reviewed the writs and certified the results, and Desjarlais has been formally sworn in. For the next few weeks (or until he is sworn in), I think it would be more accurate to call him the MP-elect for Griesbach.

I'll edit the article accordingly.

AndrewBeingessner (talk) 00:12, 22 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Wikipedia does not care about the distinction between "elected" and "sworn in" when it comes to new MPs. Firstly, the distinction is only temporary at best. Secondly, the swearing-in of new MPs does not get covered by the media as a news story, so the date on which any given MP is actually sworn in as an MP is virtually always impossible to source — each MP is sworn in on their own, on what may be a different day than other MPs, and even Parliament's own self-published website does not keep track of or publish that information at all, and instead just deems all MPs' terms as having begun on the date of the election regardless of how many more days after the election it took for the person to actually be sworn in. So our longstanding consensus on Wikipedia is to follow that practice: we don't concern ourselves with the temporary nuance of whether the person has been sworn in yet or not, and just denote the term as beginning on election day. See WP:CANSTYLE. Bearcat (talk) 15:21, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

Additional source
I don't have time at the moment, but there are some good details in this article that should allow for some more expansion of this article. Connormah (talk) 20:11, 21 November 2021 (UTC)

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