page_title: Geoff Regan
section_title: Speaker of the House of Commons
hierarchical_section_title: Geoff Regan / Federal politics / Speaker of the House of Commons
caption_attribution_description: El Presidente Enrique Peña Nieto continúa la Visita de Estado a Canadá, acompañado por el Primer Ministro, Justin Trudeau. Ottawa, Canadá, 28 de junio de 2016.
context_page_description: Geoffrey Paul Regan PC MP is a Canadian politician who served as the 36th Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Liberal Party of Canada, he has been the Member of Parliament for Halifax West since 2000, previously holding the seat from 1993 to 1997. Under Paul Martin, he was Minister of Fisheries and Oceans from 2003 to 2006.
context_section_description: Regan was re-elected in the 2015 federal election with 68% of the vote as the Liberal party swept all 32 Atlantic Canada seats and formed a majority government. On 2 December 2015, Regan was selected as Speaker of the House of Commons in secret ballot by members of the 42nd Parliament over LiberalsDenis Paradis and Yasmin Ratansi and Conservative Bruce Stanton. Regan won on the first ballot and served as the first speaker from Atlantic Canada in almost a hundred years. In December 2019, he ran for re-election for Speaker of the Commons but lost to fellow Liberal MP Anthony Rota. Following Rota's win, the Conservatives said that he had them to thank for his new position. They had made the decision during a caucus meeting to unseat Regan as a show of strength to the Liberal minority government. They did so by ranking Regan further down on the ranked ballot.
caption: Regan as Speaker
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