Entrance To Elected Politics
Scheer was elected as a Conservative candidate in the 2004 elections in the riding of Regina—Qu'Appelle, beating veteran New Democratic Party MP Lorne Nystrom by 861 votes. He was re-elected in the 2006 elections, once again defeating Nystrom – this time by a margin of 2,740 votes.
In April 2006, Scheer was named Assistant Deputy Chairman of Committees of the Whole, one of three deputy speakers and one of the youngest Members of Parliament to serve in that role in Commonwealth history. On November 21, 2008, he was named Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons & Chairman of Committees of the Whole, succeeding New Democrat MP Bill Blaikie.
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