Election of a new Speaker will be first order of business when Parliament resumes Tuesday.
OTTAWA – Before Tuesday is out the House of Commons will have a new Speaker, with eight MPs making a bid to take over where Anthony Rota left off.. Rota stepped down as Speaker after he called on the House to recognize and applaud a 98-year-old man, Yaroslav Hunka, who had served in a Nazi unit during the Second World War.
The Speaker’s role is largely to act as an arbitrator during debates and they are supposed to remain politically neutral, but they have played pivotal roles at times. Rota took the government to court over a refusal to provide documents about two scientists fired from a government lab and former Speaker Peter Milliken ruled the former Conservative government had to hand over documents about Afghan detainees.
D’Entremont acknowledged that he will have an uphill battle, but told reporters he was hoping to convince all of the opposition MPs to align with him and that there would be value in having a Speaker from outside the government benches.“It is something that has only happened a very few times, but I think the indication right now is we’re working in the right direction,” he said.
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