Speaker Of The Senate (Canada)
The Speaker of the Senate of Canada (French: Président du Sénat du Canada) is the presiding officer of the Senate of Canada. The speaker represents the Senate at official functions, rules on questions of parliamentary procedure and parliamentary privilege, and oversee debates and voting in the red chamber. This position is often misunderstood as being equivalent to that in the House of Commons, but it is not. The current speaker is the Honourable Noël Kinsella, a Conservative Senator representing the province of New Brunswick.
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