Tweed to Become Speaker of House of Commons?
11/5/2008 at 9:28 AM
David Akin, a plugged-in national affairs reporter in Ottawa, is reporting that Merv Tweed is seriously in the running to become the next Speaker of the House of Commons.
Assuming Merv could work around his inability to speak French (that's what translation is for, I guess), I think he would be a fine speaker. He seems to have the kind of restrained temperment that is needed to handle the circus that is question period.
Here's the link to the story:
http://davidakin.blogware.com/blog/_archives/2008/11/4/3962635.html