29th Canadian Parliament

29th Parliament of Canada
Minority parliament
4 January 1973 – 9 May 1974
Parliament leaders
Prime Minister	Pierre Trudeau 20 Apr 1968 – 4 Jun 1979
Cabinet	20th Canadian Ministry
Leader of the Opposition	Robert Stanfield November 6, 1967 (1967-11-06) – November 21, 1976 (1976-11-21)
Party caucuses
Government	Liberal Party
Opposition	Progressive Conservative Party
Recognized	New Democratic Party
	Social Credit Party
House of Commons
Seating arrangements of the House of Commons
Speaker of the Commons	Lucien Lamoureux January 18, 1966 (1966-01-18) – September 29, 1974 (1974-09-29)
Government House Leader	Allan MacEachen September 24, 1970 (1970-09-24) – May 9, 1974 (1974-05-09)
Opposition House Leader	Ged Baldwin July 27, 1968 (1968-07-27) – September 20, 1973 (1973-09-20)
	Thomas Bell September 21, 1973 (1973-09-21) – May 9, 1974 (1974-05-09)
Members	264 MP seats List of members
Senate
Speaker of the Senate	Muriel Fergusson December 14, 1972 (1972-12-14) – September 11, 1974 (1974-09-11)
Government Senate Leader	Paul Martin Sr. April 1, 1969 (1969-04-01) – August 7, 1974 (1974-08-07)
Opposition Senate Leader	Jacques Flynn October 31, 1967 (1967-10-31) – May 22, 1979 (1979-05-22)
Senators	102 senator seats List of senators
Sovereign
Monarch	Elizabeth II 6 February 1952 – 8 September 2022
Sessions
1st session January 4, 1973 (1973-01-04) – February 26, 1974 (1974-02-26)
2nd session February 27, 1974 (1974-02-27) – May 9, 1974 (1974-05-09)
← 28th → 30th

The 29th Canadian Parliament was in session from January 4, 1973, until May 9, 1974. The membership was set by the 1972 federal election on October 30, 1972, and it was dissolved prior to the 1974 election. It was controlled by a Liberal Party minority led by Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and the 20th Canadian Ministry, with the support of David Lewis's New Democratic Party. The Official Opposition was the Progressive Conservative Party, led by Robert Stanfield. The Speaker was Lucien Lamoureux.

The government lost the confidence of the house in 1974 when finance minister John Turner's budget was defeated by a vote of 137 to 123,^[1] prompting the prime minister to seek dissolution of parliament for the next election.

There were two sessions of the 29th Parliament. The first was from January 4, 1973, to February 26, 1974, and the second was from February 27 to May 9, 1974.