Gary Levy, former editor of the Canadian Parliamentary Review, said the absence of a Speaker would provoke a constitutional crisis. NDP Leader John Horgan, who has entered into an agreement with the Greens, said he would be open to having a Liberal Speaker, which would put him at a 44-42 advantage. “I want to make this minority parliament work.”There is no rule that a Speaker has to come from the governing party. The deputy Speaker position poses another conundrum. “We’re largely into uncharted territory,” said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall Law School at York University in Toronto.

Source: National Post June 05, 2017 04:07 UTC