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• Position: New speakers - Brief article

The new Speaker of the House of Commons is Andrew Scheer. He was elected on the sixth ballot defeating seven other candidates. He replaces Peter Milliken who did not run in the May 2, 2011 federal election. Born in Ottawa in 1979, he becomes the youngest Speaker of the House in Canadian history.

Mr. Scheer studied history and politics at the University of Ottawa and the University of Regina, where he received a Bachelor of Arts. He worked for the Leader of the Opposition while he was still a student in Ottawa and shortly after graduation, joined the constituency office of Canadian...