The Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (French: Président de la Chambre des communes) is the presiding officer of the lower house of the Parliament of Canada and is elected at the beginning of each new parliament by fellow Members of Parliament (MPs). The Speaker's role in presiding over Canada's House of Commons is similar to that of speakers elsewhere in other countries that use the Westminster system (see Speaker of the House of Commons).

Purpose

In Canada it is the Speaker's responsibility to manage the House of Commons and supervise its staff. It is also the Speaker's duty to act as a liaison with the Senate and the Crown. He is to rule over the house and have the government answer questions during the question period as well as keep decorum with the house. The Speaker of the House of Commons receives a salary of about $230,000 CAD and has use of the official residence, The Farm, an estate located at Kingsmere in Gatineau Park, Quebec, across the river from Ottawa.

The term "Speaker" originates from the British parliamentary tradition. The French term now used in Canada is Président (president, chairperson, or presiding officer); the term Orateur, a calque (literal translation) of "Speaker" and formerly the term used in France for the Speaker of the British House of Commons, was used until a few decades ago. By convention, Speakers are normally addressed in Parliament as "Mister Speaker", for a male, and "Madame Speaker", for a female.

Conservative Party Speaker

• James Cockburn (6 November 1867 to 5 March 1874)

Liberal Party Speaker

• Timothy Warren Anglin (26 March 1874 to 12 February 1879)

Liberal-Conservative Party Speaker

• Joseph-Goderic Blanchet (13 February 1879 to 7 February 1883)

Conservative Party Speaker

• George Airey Kirkpatrick (8 February 1883 to 12 July 1887)

Liberal-Conservative Party Speaker

• Joseph-Aldric Ouimet (13 July 1887 to 28 July 1891)

Conservative Party Speaker

• Peter White (29 July 1891 to 18 August 1896)

Liberal Party Speakers

• James David Edgar (19 August 1896 to 31 July 1899)
• Thomas Bain (1 August 1899 to 5 February 1901)
• Louis-Philippe Brodeur (6 February 1901 to 18 January 1904)
• Napoléon Antoine Belcourt (10 March 1904 to 10 January 1905)
• Robert Franklin Sutherland (11 January 1905 to 19 January 1909)
• Charles Marcil (20 January 1909 to 14 November 1911)

Conservative Party Speakers

• Thomas Simpson Sproule (15 November 1911 to 2 December 1915)
• Albert Sévigny (12 January 1916 to 7 January 1917)
• Edgar Nelson Rhodes (18 January 1917 to 5 March 1922)

Liberal Party Speaker

• Rodolphe Lemieux (8 March 1922 to 2 June 1930)

Conservative Party Speakers

• George Black (8 September 1930 to 16 January 1935)
• James Langstaff Bowman (17 January 1935 to 5 February 1936)

Liberal Party Speakers

• Pierre-François Casgrain (6 February 1936 to 10 May 1940)
• James Allison Glen (16 May 1940 to 5 September 1945)
• Gaspard Fauleux (6 September 1945 to 14 September 1949)
• William Ross Macdonald (15 September 1949 to 11 June 1953)
• Louis-René Beaudoin (12 November 1953 to 13 October 1957)

Progressive Conservative Party Speakers

• Roland Michener (14 October 1957 to 26 September 1962)
• Marcel Lambert (27 September 1962 to 15 May 1963)

Liberal Party Speakers

• Alan Macnaughton (16 May 1963 to 17 January 1966)
• Lucien Lamoureux (18 January 1966 to 29 September 1974) Also was an Independent MP for the final two elections that he won.
• James Alexander Jerome (30 September 1974 to 14 December 1979
• Jeanne Sauvé (14 April 1980 to 15 January 1984)
• Cyril Lloyd Francis (16 January 1984 to 4 November 1984)

Progressive Conservative Party Speakers

• John William Bosley (5 November 1984 to 29 September 1986)
• John Allen Fraser (30 September 1986 to 16 January 1994)

Liberal Party Speakers

• Gilbert Parent (17 January 1994 to 28 January 2001)
• Peter Milliken (29 January 2001 to 2 June 2011)

Conservative Party Speaker

• Andrew Scheer (2 June 2011 to 2 December 2015)

Liberal Party Speaker

• Geoff Regan (3 December 2015 to present)