Greg Fergus, who chairs Parliament’s Black Caucus, beat six other candidates. He replaces Anthony Rota, who resigned after uproar over the honoring of a Nazi veteran.
Greg Fergus, Canada's newly elected speaker of the House, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, right, and Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre, left, in Ottawa on Tuesday. Canada’s House of Commons voted in Greg Fergus as its first Black speaker on Tuesday, following the resignation of the previous speaker, who had invited a Nazi veteran to Parliament.
Describing his new role as a “great honor,” Fergus told House members that he hoped to show people that “politics is a noble profession.”in Parliament and has held senior advisory roles in a number of ministries. He is the father of three adult children and has one grandson. Besides politics, his interests include running and jazz., Canada’s first Black woman to be elected as a member of Parliament, briefly served as deputy speaker before her retirement from politics in 2006.
Fergus’s selection comes in the aftermath of an embarrassing controversy that made global headlines and drew wide condemnation.
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