The whip is also responsible for assigning offices and scheduling speakers from his or her party for various bills, motions and other proceedings in the legislature.
A party whip works to ensure that the number of party members in the legislature or at committee meetings is adequate to win a vote if one is called.
When a vote is called in the legislature, division bells ring until the whips for each party are satisfied that there are sufficient members of their own party present for the vote to proceed.
For that matter, nobody in Ottawa, three blocks from the Hill, has ever heard of the Whip either!
"[1] The post of Chief Government Whip is not a cabinet-level position.