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What is a backbencher?

What is a backbencher? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (politics) A Member of Parliament who does not have cabinet rank, and who therefore sits on one of the backbenches or in one of the back rows of the legislature.
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Ideas that raced through his head, as a backbencher, became concrete legislation once he held the Ministerial reins.
Mr. Preston Manning: An hon. backbencher across the way mentioned the word taxes.
I ask that every Liberal backbencher look at the cruelty to animals legislation and the firearm legislation.
The member, a backbencher, has experienced it firsthand with the introduction of this bill which went through committee to have it made votable.
I hope he is not just a backbencher who is being led around by the nose with these kinds of ridiculous arguments.
All I ask now is that I be allowed to continue my constituency and Parliamentary work and responsibilities as a backbencher.

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