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Traditionally in Canada the Speaker was appointed by the Prime Minister, but in 1986 this was changed and they are now selected by secret ballot. The Speaker remains a sitting MP, but only votes on matters in the case of a tie. In Canada it is the Speaker's responsibility to manage the House of Commons and supervise its staff. It is also the Speaker's duty to act as a liaison with the Senate and the Crown. The Speaker of the House of Commons receives a salary of about $209,000 ( Cdn) and has use of the official residence, the Kingsmere estate outside Gatineau, Quebec, just across the river from Ottawa. The current Speaker is Ontario Liberal MP Peter MillikenThe Honourable Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken (born November 12, 1946) is Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, a position he has held since 2001. He was elected to the House of Commons in 1988 defeating well-known Conservative cabinet minister Flora M.

The Speaker's counterpart in the upper houseAn upper house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the lower house. Upper houses are known by a variety of titles, but the most common is senate . An upper house is usually distinct from the lower house in at least o is the Speaker of the Canadian SenateThe Speaker of the Canadian Senate is the presiding officer of the Canadian Senate. The role of the speaker is to oversee debate and votes in the upper house, rule on questions of parliamentary procedure and represent the Senate at official state function.

Canadian provincial and territorial legislatureA legislature is a governmental deliberative body with the power to adopt laws. Legislatures are known by many names, including: parliament congress diet and national assembly . In parliamentary systems of government, the legislature is formally supreme as also have Speakers with much the same roles.

1 Procedures

After an election by secret ballot, the speaker is dragged to the chair. The tradition is borrowed from Britain, where speakers of the House once ran the risk of losing their heads to irritated regents.

2 List of Federal Speakers

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2. Timothy Warren Anglin - March 26, 1874 - February 12, 1879 Liberal
3. Joseph Godéric Blanchet - February 13, 1879 - February 7, 1883 Liberal-Conservative
4. George Airey Kirkpatrick - February 8, 1883 - July 12, 1887 Conservative
5. Joseph-Aldéric Ouimet - July 13, 1887 - July 28, 1891 Conservative
6. Peter White - July 29, 1891 - August 18, 1896 Conservative
7. James David Edgar - August 19, 1896 - July 31, 1899 Liberal
8. Thomas Bain - August 1, 1899 - February 5, 1901 Liberal
9. Louis Philippe Brodeur - February 6, 1901 - January 18, 1904 Liberal
10. Napoléon Antoine Belcourt - March 10, 1904 - January 10, 1905 Liberal
11. Robert Franklin Sutherland - January 11, 1905 - January 19, 1909 Liberal
12. Charles Marcil - January 20, 1909 - November 14, 1911 Liberal
13. Thomas Simpson Sproule - November 15, 1911 - December 2, 1915
14. Albert Sévigny - January 12, 1916 - January 7, 1917 Conservative
15. Edgar Nelson Rhodes - January 18, 1917 - March 5, 1922 Conservative
16. Rodolphe Lemieux - March 8, 1922 - June 2, 1930 Liberal
17. George Black - September 8, 1930 - January 16, 1935 Conservative
18. James Langstaff Bowman - January 17, 1935 - February 5, 1936 Conservative
19. Pierre-François Casgrain - February 6, 1936 - May 10, 1940 Liberal
20. James Allison Glen - May 16, 1940 - September 5, 1945 Liberal
21. Gaspard Fauteux - September 6, 1945 - September 14, 1949 Liberal
22. William Ross Macdonald - September 15, 1949 - June 11, 1953 Liberal
23. Louis-René Beaudoin - November 12, 1953 - October 13, 1957 Liberal
24. Roland Michener - October 14, 1957 - September 26, 1962 Progressive Conservative
25. Marcel Lambert - September 27, 1962 - May 15, 1963 Progressive Conservative
26. Alan Macnaughton - May 16, 1963 - January 17, 1966 Liberal
27. Lucien Lamoureux - January 18, 1966 - September 29, 1974 Liberal/Independent++
28. James Alexander Jerome - September 30, 1974 - December 14, 1979 Liberal
29. Jeanne Sauvé - April 14, 1980 - January 15, 1984 Liberal
30. Cyril Lloyd Francis - January 16, 1984 - November 4, 1984 Liberal
31. John William Bosley - November 5, 1984 - September 29, 1986 Progressive Conservative
32. John Allen Fraser - September 30, 1986 - January 16, 1994 Progressive Conservative
33. Gilbert Parent - January 17, 1994 - January 28, 2001 Liberal
34. Peter Milliken - January 29, 2001 - present Liberal

++Lamoureaux emulated the tradition of the Speaker of the British House of Commons and ran for re-election as an Independent MP in the 1968 and 1972 general elections.