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Tributes from MPs pour in for former House Speaker John Bosley

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John Bosley, Speaker of the House of Commons from 1984 to 1986 and MP for Don Valley West from 1979 to 1993, died on April 28. 'No greater honour can be conferred upon one of us than to be chosen by one’s peers to be their presiding officer,' said Bosley in the House of Commons following his nomination by former prime minister Brian Mulroney. Photographs courtesy of Speaker of the House of Commons Twitter

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BY MIKE LAPOINTE

May 11, 2022

The very last Speaker of the House of Commons to be directly appointed to the position by a prime minister before secret ballot voting was introduced in 1986, John Bosley died on April 28 at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital. Bosley, who first served on Toronto’s Metro Council from...

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