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[Canada House of] Commons Speaker Milliken marks milestone today
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| Contributor | Monsieur |
| Last Edited | Monsieur Oct 12, 2009 11:53am |
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| Author | The Canadian Press |
| News Date | Monday, October 12, 2009 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | OTTAWA — Peter Milliken's job might be compared to herding cats, but he's done it longer than anyone in Canadian history.
Milliken is the Speaker of the House of Commons and, as of Monday, he will have held the job for 3,178 days, surpassing the tenure of Lucien Lamoureux, a Trudeau-era Speaker.
While few people are likely to recognize the name, they'll likely know the face. On the evening news clips from the Commons, he's the white-haired chap in the black robe trying to keep the exasperation from his voice as he tries to calm a raucous question period.
The 62-year-old MP from Kingston, Ont., was elected the 34th Speaker on January 29, 2001, and has since been acclaimed once and re-elected twice to the post.
It's probably an apt vocation for a man who, as a teenager, subscribed to Hansard and wrote a college thesis on question period in the 1960s. |
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