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    The speaker of the Senate of Canada (French: président du Sénat du Canada) is the presiding officer of the Senate of Canada. The speaker represents the...
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    countries. The Speaker of the Senate of Canada presides over the Senate of Canada. Kenya's Senate is also presided over by a Speaker. The U.S. Senate has no...
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    Parliament of Canada. A member of Parliament (MP), they are elected at the beginning of each new parliament by fellow MPs. The speaker's role in presiding...
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  • The Speaker pro tempore (French: Président(e) intérimaire) is an officer and second-highest ranking member of the Senate of Canada. The Speaker Pro Tempore...
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    Raymonde Gagné (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    a Canadian politician and academic who has served as the speaker of the Senate of Canada since May 12, 2023. She was named to the Senate of Canada to...
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    The Senate of Canada (Quebec French: Sénat du Canada) is the upper house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Crown and the House of Commons...
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    President of the Senate is a title often given to the presiding officer of a senate. It corresponds to the speaker in some other assemblies. The senate president...
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    The speaker of the Senate (président du Sénat) is the presiding officer of the Senate, the appointed upper house. The speaker represents the Senate at...
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    Noël Kinsella (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    (November 28, 1939 – December 6, 2023) was a Canadian politician and was speaker of the Senate of Canada from 2006 to 2014. Noël Augustus Kinsella was...
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  • Justices of Canada, in order of their appointment Beverly McLachlin (2000–2017) Speaker of the Senate of Canada (Raymonde Gagné) Speaker of the House of Commons...
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    Canada, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (French: Chef de l'opposition au Sénat) is the leader of the largest party in the Canadian Senate not...
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  • List of speakers of the Senate List of leaders of the government in the Senate (Canada) List of representatives of the Government in the Senate (Canada) List...
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    three parts: the King, the Senate, and the House of Commons. By constitutional convention, the House of Commons is dominant, with the Senate rarely opposing...
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    Opposition in the House of Commons. The speaker of the Senate of Canada ruled against him, however, as the Progressive Conservatives were the larger opposition...
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    Pierre Claude Nolin (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    figure in the Party's parliamentary caucus. Appointed to the Canadian senate on recommendation of Brian Mulroney on 1993, he was designated as speaker pro tempore...
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  • President. Speaker Pro Tempore of the Canadian Senate President pro tempore of the United States Senate Speaker pro tempore of the United States House of Representatives...
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    Gildas Molgat (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    Governor General of Canada, Molgat replaced him as Speaker of the Senate of Canada. Molgat also served as president of the Liberal Party of Canada. He died in...
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    George Furey (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    J. Furey PC KC (born May 12, 1948) is a Canadian politician who served as the speaker of the Senate of Canada from 2015 to 2023. Furey was appointed as...
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    of succession, after the vice president and ahead of the president pro tempore of the Senate. The 56th and current Speaker of the House is Mike Johnson...
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  • Dan Hays (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    1939) is a Canadian politician born in Calgary, Alberta. He was Speaker of the Senate of Canada from 2001 to 2006, when he became Leader of the Government...
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    Muriel McQueen Fergusson (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    1997) was a Canadian activist, judge and politician. Fergusson served in the Senate of Canada and the first woman Speaker of the Senate. She is known...
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    the Throne the following day. The Speaker of the Senate of Canada was George Furey, who was appointed Speaker of the Canadian Senate on the advice of...
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  • Renaude Lapointe (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    was Speaker of the Senate. She was also Speaker pro tempore from June 9, 1982 until November 30, 1983. In 1989, she was invested as a Companion of the Order...
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    George William Allan (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 11th Mayor of Toronto and later as Speaker of the Senate of Canada. Allan attended Upper Canada College...
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    Walter Edward Foster (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    appointed by Prime Minister Mackenzie King to the Senate of Canada and served as Speaker of the Senate of Canada from 1936 to 1940. Foster married Joanna Vassie...
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    notables. The first tenant was the Speaker of the Senate of Canada, Joseph-Édouard Cauchon. The building was named by Cauchon's wife after Stadacona, the First...
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  • Allister Grosart (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    Grosart to the Senate. He served as deputy leader of the Opposition from 1974 until 1979, and became Speaker of the Senate of Canada when the Tories again...
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    list of current members of the Senate of Canada (French: Le Sénat du Canada), the upper house of the Parliament of Canada. Unlike the members of Parliament...
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  • Maurice Riel (category Speakers of the Senate of Canada)
    He was appointed Speaker of the Senate of Canada on December 16, 1983, but served for less than a year in that position due to the Progressive Conservative...
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    Canada. Together with the Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the bicameral legislature of Canada. The House of Commons is a democratically elected...
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