Peter Milliken
Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken PC OC FRSC is a Canadian lawyer and politician. He was a member of the Canadian House of Commons from 1988 until his retirement in 2011 and served as Speaker of the House foryears beginning in 2001. Milliken represented the Ontario riding of Kingston and the Islands as a member of the Liberal Party. On October 12, 2009, he became the longest serving Speaker of the House of Commons in Canadian history. His Speakership was notable for the number of tiebreaking votes he was required to make as well as for making several historic rulings. Milliken also has the unique distinction of being the first Speaker to preside over four Parliaments. His legacy includes his landmark rulings on Parliaments right to information, which are key elements of parliamentary precedent both in Canada and throughout the Commonwealth.
Milliken was born in Kingston, Ontario, the eldest of seven children to a physician father, and is a descendant of United Empire Loyalists who left the new United States of America after the American Revolution. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics from Queens University , a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Jurisprudence from Oxford University, , in England, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from Dalhousie University. He was active in student politics, and served a year as speaker of the student governments assembly at Queens. In 196768, he worked as a special assistant to federal cabinet minister George J. McIlraith.
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