Selecting Commons clerk needs ‘unanimity’ from all parties, say opposition MPs after critics pan past process

Former House clerk Audrey O’Brien says the role requires a candidate capable of performing a unique 'balancing act.'

NDP House Leader Peter Julian, left, and Conservative Deputy Whip Chris Warkentin, right, are both calling on Government House Leader Mark Holland, centre, to ensure the process for hiring the new House clerk involves building a consensus among all parties.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, file photograph

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BY IAN CAMPBELL

January 3, 2023

Conservative MP Chris Warkentin says hiring the last House clerk was an “unmitigated disaster,” but he believes the government “understands the mistake” and—based on initial conversations with Liberal colleagues about the replacement process—there is “an appeti...

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