Appointment of Manitoba’s Raymonde Gagne as $241,300-a year Speaker of the Senate comes 20 years after a reform bill to elect speakers lapsed in the Upper House. The Senate is among the last national assemblies in any English-speaking country that does not elect its speaker: “The Senate will gain in independence and dignity with the election of its speaker by secret ballot.”
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