New Senate Speaker.

PositionCPA Activities: The Canadian Scene - Leo Housakos - Brief article

Prime Minister Stephen Harper appointed Quebec Conservative Senator Leo Housakos as the 44th Speaker of the upper chamber on May 4, 2015. He had been serving as Speaker pro tempore since December 2014.

Appointed to the Senate in 2008 by Prime Minister Harper, he has served in numerous roles on a variety of Senate standing committees and currently chairs the Standing Committee on Internal Economy, Budgets and Administration.

Housakos has pledged to continue to work of Speaker Nolin and his predecessor, Noel Kinsella, on modernizing the institution.

"To me, the...

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