Editing Frontbencher (section)

==Canada==
While backbenchers are referred to in the [[House of Commons of Canada]] (and the provincial legislatures), the front seats on the government side are reserved for cabinet ministers. Front row members of the governing party are not referred to as frontbenchers, but as cabinet ministers. Some "frontbenchers" actually sit in the centre of the second row, so as to be seen directly behind the party leader during Question Period (and thus, in the television frame).

The same arrangement exists for each [[Legislative assemblies of Canadian provinces and territories|provincial legislature and the territorial legislature of Yukon]]. In the case of [[Legislative Assembly of Nunavut|Nunavut]] and [[Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories|Northwest Territories]] where there is [[Consensus government in Canada|consensus government]] with a non-partisan makeup,  ministers sit amongst regular members.