Peter Milliken

Peter Andrew Stewart Milliken ( born November 12, 1946 in Kingston, Ontario ) is a Canadian lawyer and politician of the Liberal Party. He was on 21 November 1988 to March 26, 2011 Member of the House of Commons and was dated 29 January 2001 to 2 June 2011, the 34th Speaker of the Parliament.

Life

Milliken was born in 1946, the eldest of seven children of a physicist. He studied until 1968, political science and economics at Queen 's University and then to 1978 law at Oxford University. He also received in 1971 a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University. 1967 and 1968 he worked as an assistant to the Minister of Transport George McIlraith. 1973 Milliken partner of the law firm Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham, Kingston. He was also a 1973-1981 Lecturer at Queen 's University School of Business. In 1977 he became director of the Kingston General Hospital.

1988 Milliken won the nomination of the Liberal party in the constituency " Kingston and the Islands " and also won the elections for the lower house against the Minister for Communications Flora MacDonald of the Progressive Conservative Party. In his first term he advocated mainly for electoral reform. He was re-elected to Parliament in 1993. In December of the year Milliken was appointed Parliamentary Secretary of the Government House Leader. He also became Chairman of the " Commons Procedure and House Affairs Committee" ( Committee on Rules Questions ). In 1994 he was nominated to the Speaker of the House, but lost the election against Gilbert Parent. Milliken was re- elected in the 1997 elections in the Canadian House of Commons and became Deputy Speaker of the House.

In January 2001, Milliken was elected Speaker of the House and confirmed by the 2004 elections in his office. After elections in 2006, Milliken was re-elected Chairman of the House, even though his party had lost its majority in parliament. It was only the second time in Canadian history that a opposition candidate won the election. In 2008, Milliken captured the seat in the House of Commons in his constituency and won again after five rounds of voting, the election of the Speaker. Before the 2011 elections, he ended his political career and did not occur again. He is the longest reigning Speaker in Canadian history.

Milliken teaches and conducts research today at the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. He is also a consultant to the law firm Cunningham Swan LLP Lawyers.

Honors

Milliken is an honorary member of the Royal Military College of Canada. He also received

• 2001: Honorary doctorate from the State University of New York
• 2012: Honorary doctorate from Queen's University
• 2012: Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany