New speakers.

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Several new Speakers have been elected as a result of provincial elections held recently in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island and Ontario.

Newfoundland and Labrador

On November 12, 2003 Harvey Hodder was elected Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Newfoundland and Labrador. This was to be the first secret ballot election of the Speaker by secret ballot but as there was only one candidate there was no need for a ballot.

Harvey Hodder is a graduate of Memorial University of Newfoundland with a B.A. (Hons.), B.A. (Ed.) and a Graduate Diploma in Educational Administration. He held teaching positions in Botwood and Point Leamington prior to an extensive teaching/administrative career with the Avalon Consolidated School Board in three different Mount Pearl schools.

For more than 30 years, Mr. Hodder has been very active in community organisations including the Boy Scouts of Canada, the Canadian Heart Foundation, the Mount Pearl Minor Soccer Association, Mount Pearl Winter Carnival, the Mount Pearl Library Board, the Mount Pearl Marlins Swim Club, etc. In addition he served four years as a member of the Board of Regents for Memorial University.

Prior to entering the House of Assembly in 1993 as the Member for the District of Waterford-Kenmount, Mr. Hodder served as a Councillor, Deputy-Mayor and was elected on four occasions to the position of Mayor of the City of Mount Pearl. For 12 years, he served as the Mount Pearl representative with the St. John's Metropolitan Area Board and was elected twice to the Executive of the Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Municipalities.

Re-elected in 1996 and 1999 he has held a variety of critic responsibilities: the Department of Municipal and Provincial Affairs, the Department of Social Services, the Department of Education and Training, Finance and Treasury Board, Health, Community and Family Services. Human Resources and Employment and most recently Tourism, Culture and Recreation From December 1994 until the submission of the Committee's Report to the House of Assembly in June 1996, he also served as the Vice-Chair of the Select Committee on Children's Interests.

He was Chair of the Caucus Strategy Committee and from March 1996 to January 1998 was the Opposition House Leader and a member of the Legislature's Internal Economy Committee. Mr. Hodder was co-chair of the Caucus Election Readiness Committee.

Prince Edward Island

Gregory (Greg) Deighan elected Speaker of the Prince Edward...