Editing Question Period (section)

{{Short description|Canadian parliamentary procedure}}
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[[File:Andrew Scheer in Ottawa (49208633586).jpg|thumb|250px|Then-Leader of the Opposition [[Andrew Scheer]] poses a question to Prime Minister [[Justin Trudeau]], 2019]]
'''Question Period''' ('''QP'''; {{langx|fr|période des questions}}), known officially as '''Oral Questions''' ({{langx|fr|questions orales}}), occurs each sitting day in the [[House of Commons of Canada]]—similarly in [[Legislative assemblies of Canadian provinces and territories|provincial legislatures]]—in which members of the parliament [[question time|ask questions]] of government ministers (including the [[Prime Minister of Canada|prime minister]]). According to the House of Commons Compendium, "The primary purpose of Question Period is to seek information from the Government and to call it to account for its actions."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.parl.gc.ca/compendium/web-content/c_d_principlesguidelinesoralquestions-e.htm|title = Oral Questions - Questions - House of Commons Procedure and Practice, Third edition, 2017}}</ref> 

It is similar in form to [[question time]] in other parliaments, mainly those following the [[Westminster system]]. 

In the [[Legislative Assembly of Ontario|Legislative Assemblies of Ontario]] and [[Legislative Assembly of Manitoba|Manitoba]] (as well as in several other provinces), questions raised are formally referred as ''Oral Questions''. In the [[Quebec National Assembly]], the term is ''Oral Questions and Answers''.