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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Ian Bailey
Publication Date: April 24, 2024 - 18:00

Speaker of the House John Fraser had a passion for the environment

April 24, 2024
John Fraser didn’t initially want the job that is now key to his political legacy. In 1986, a year after he quit his post as Brian Mulroney’s fisheries minister over his role in a scandal involving tainted tuna, the opportunity arose for him to run for House of Commons Speaker.Fellow MPs were asking Mr. Fraser, the Progressive Conservative MP for Vancouver South, to submit his candidacy for the post. “I said no,” he later recalled in an oral history.

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