raymond speaker

Raymond (Ray) Speaker (born December 13 1935) is a farmer and Canadian politician. Speaker was born and raised in Enchant, Alberta where he farms to this day. He also worked as a teacher until 1962. He entered politics in 1963 with his election as an MLA for the Social Credit Party of Alberta and served as minister without portfolio in 1967 Minister of Health and Social Development and Minister of Personnel in 1968 and Chairman of the Human Resources Development Authority 1969. He remained a Social Credit MLA for many years after the party lost power in 1971. He served in the early 1980s as Leader of the Opposition and leader of the Social Credit party.. In 1984, after having left the party and sat as an Independent MLA, he was elected leader of the Representative Party of Alberta which was an attempt at creating a new right wing party in the province. The party ultimately disbanded and Speaker joined the ruling Alberta Progressive Conservative Party and was named to the cabinet as Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing in 1989. Speaker ran for and won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1993 Canadian election as an MP for the Reform Party of Canada serving as finance critic and then House Leader before retiring from politics at the 1997 Canadian election. In 1999, Speaker was appointed to the Security Intelligence Review Committee, an agency which provides an external review of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service and was named to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. Speaker, Raymond Speaker, Raymond

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