This is the best summary I could come up with:
Liberal MP Greg Fergus has been elected the new Speaker of the House of Commons — and his first challenge will be to help Parliament turn the page on the embarrassing Yaroslav Hunka incident.
In his pitch for the job, Fergus vowed to improve the decorum in the Commons — something past Speakers have also promised with little success.
“Respect and decorum — I’m going to be working hard on this and I need all your help to make this happen,” Fergus said in his first remarks from the Speaker’s chair after being elected.
In 2007, former Liberal leader Stéphane Dion named him national director — the most senior role in the party’s organizational hierarchy.
Fergus, first elected in 2015, served as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s parliamentary secretary — a testament to the close relationship he enjoys with the head of government.
The Speaker election was prompted by Anthony Rota’s decision to vacate the chair after taking full responsibility for inviting Hunka — a 98-year-old veteran of a Nazi unit — to participate in the celebration of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during his recent visit.
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I hope electing a new speaker goes just as smoothly south of the border 🙂
At first I read Craig Ferguson. I was like “since when did he get his Canadian citizenship?”
It would have been hilarious though.
This season of the American political reality show is so enthralling, it’s nice to have a government up here that can at least get procedural things done
