National Politics
Speaker ran for and won a seat in the Canadian House of Commons in the 1993 election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Reform Party of Canada in the Federal Riding of Lethbridge. He served as finance critic and then House Leader of the Reform caucus. He retired from politics at the 1997 election.
In 1999, Speaker was appointed to the Security Intelligence Review Committee, an agency which provides an external review of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and was named to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.
In 2001, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
After the Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in the 2006 federal election, Speaker was appointed to the Prime Minister's transition team. He also was the chair of the Conservative Alliance merger.
He was appointed as a mentor for the Trudeau Foundation of Canada in January 2008.
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