Ryan Chang

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**Ryan Chang** PC CC MP (Chinese: 張世傑; Pinyin: Zhāng Shìjié; born January 3, 20XX) is a model parliamentarian who currently serves as the Usher of the Black Rod. He has held a total of five ministries in four governments under ten different prime ministers throughout *MPSP2024*, *MPSP2023* and *MPSP2021*; and served as the Deputy House Clerk during *MPSP2022*. He was first elected to Model Parliament during *MPSP2021* in the riding of Mississauga—East Cooksville. Before being elected, Chang was a world-famous professional pianist known for his unique style of playing pieces while simultaneously wearing several different types of hats.

## Early life, career and education

Chang was born in Mississauga, Ontario, to a middle-class West Korean-Canadian family. Growing up, he faced high expectations from his parents and relatives, causing him to develop millinophilia, which he continues to have as of *MPSP2024*. Chang was at the top of his elementary and middle school class and graduated as valedictorian at Cawthra Park Secondary School. However, instead of pursuing a degree to become a doctor or lawyer as his parents wanted, he journeyed to the University of Ottawa to earn a music degree to pursue a career in the music industry due to his discovery of his love for classical music in high school. After vocal disapproval from his parents over his choice of degree, they withheld the funds he needed to continue pursuing his studies. This forced him to return to Mississauga.

### Rise to fame

Chang's financial instability forced him to use his allowance savings that he'd saved over the many years, which amounted to several hundred dollars. He spent several weeks lodging in internet cafes and IKEAs, evading contact with the staff as much as possible. Upon one visit to IKEA, Chang stumbled upon an open-air piano that anyone could play. Deciding that he had nothing to lose, Chang would play the piano, attracting a large crowd with his skillful playing.

This would be just the beginning, as he would continue going to open-air pianos across Mississauga and playing. Many people even gave him money after he left out a hat in which people could give cash. He was later approached by a music agent after displaying his skill and was officially signed on to a music label within minutes. Chang composed his pieces, and whenever he would play at concerts, he'd show off his skillful playing while wearing multiple hats, earning him the epithet among his fans as the ***Classical Hat Demon***.

### Semi-retirement from music

Despite the fame and glory that Chang has garnered over the years, he felt as though something was missing in his life and thus decided to partially retire from playing piano to pursue other ventures. This was met with a wave of support and disappointment from his fans, who mostly respected his decision. Chang later went on to work as a vexillologist and cartographer for Roastmedia and was the returning officer for Mississauga—Lakeshore during *MPSP2019* and *MPSP2020*.

## Chang and Sauga

According to their colleagues, Michael Sauga, the editor-in-chief of the National Roast, and Chang are said to look very similar to one another. Despite this, neither of them has ever been seen in the same room with one or the other with the exception of National Roast video in late 2022 whose authenticity has been declared "dubious".

Chang resigned his seat after *MPSP2022* in the House of Commons to serve as the Chief Recliner Advisor and Preposterous Producer of Emmaculate Rants (C.R.A.P.P.E.R.) to Sauga but later resigned from this position so that he could run for re-election in *MPSP2023*.

Following Sauga's assassination in mid-2023, Chang was present at his funeral where his child, Mica Oestreich-Sauga, announced the formation of the Big Tent Party and vowed vengeance against his assassin, Wario Wopez.

## Political career

### MPSP21

After much consideration and election-viewing in the time since his semi-retirement from music, Chang entered politics in 2020. He was invited to join the United Zoomers Party by Oakville North—Trashy Trash MP Keith de Silvia-Legault as their candidate for Mississauga—East Cooksville. After the party merged with the Totally Real People Party, he joined the merger party, the Totally Real People United by ZOOM (TRPUZ), and was re-acclaimed as the party's candidate for Mississauga—East Cooksville, where he was duly elected. He was appointed as the Minister of Mute Button Management and Webcam Affordability in the Cabinet of Prime Minister de Silvia-Legault, and later the Cabinets of Prime Ministers Billy Strathdee and Samuel Sha, earning him the honorific of The Honourable for life.

As part of his role as an MP, he was challenged by the Ethics Committee for his continued occupation as vexillologist and cartographer for Roastmedia; he was later cleared of any conflict of interest. Still, Chang would testify before the Committee again when the TPRUZ government attempted to ban mute buttons. He would serve in Cabinet until the government fell, following which he joined the newly-formed Garfield Party as a backbencher until the end of the sitting period.

### MPSP22

Several months before the 2021 election, it was rumoured that Governor-General Shailee Shah might appoint Chang as House Clerk or Deputy House Clerk. This led Chang to declare that he would stand for re-election as an Independent. This was despite a call from many of his constituents to join the FLIP Party, a request he turned down.

Due to his independent status, Chang won with a much slimmer margin, narrowly beating his FLIP and NAH Party counterparts. His independent status allowed him to be appointed as the Deputy House Clerk shortly after his election to the House by Governor-General Shailee Shah; he would serve alongside House Clerk Quinn Heffron for the term. During the closing ceremony, he was inducted into the Order of Canada as a Member for his contributions to the arts and his service as the Deputy House Clerk. He would resign immediately after the closing ceremony to return to work at Roastmedia as the C.R.A.P.P.E.R. to Michael Sauga.

### MPSP23

Upon the announcement of the 2022 election, Chang resigned from his position in Michael Sauga's office at Roastmedia to run for re-election in Mississauga—East Cooksville. While he was initially offered the nomination for his riding by No Name Party leader Ian Reid, he eventually chose to run as a member of Taylor's Party. He opposed the Guide-Seal-Taylor (GST) coalition deal, instead favouring a coalition with the No Name Party. Chang successfully won re-election; however, due to his opposition to the coalition deal, he refused a Cabinet position from Prime Minister Daniel Yang.

During the Opening of Parliament, Chang was appointed by House Clerk Tim Gulliver to serve as the inaugural Usher of the Black Rod.

During his tenure as a government back-bencher for the Taylor's Party, Chang entered negotiations with the Minister of Gaslighting, Gatekeeping, and Girlbossing Maria Mason and Finance Minister Max Christie. Upon the fall of the government, Chang defected from the party alongside Mason and Christie and joined their newly formed Birthday Party. Though briefly sent to the opposition benches, the party managed to overturn the Pirate-No Name Black and Yellow coalition government. Upon the proclamation of a Birthday government, Chang was appointed as the Minister of TBD for the remainder of the sitting period under Prime Ministers Maria Mason, Max Christie, and Xam Eitsirhc.

During the closing ceremony, Chang was reappointed into the Order of Canada as a Companion for his role as Usher of the Black Rod and his support and advocacy on behalf of Roastmedia.

### MPSP24

Following the adjournment of Parliament, Chang was briefly dispatched to the Republic of Frengland on the orders of Prime Minister Eitsirhc to lobby the Frenglish government to surrender the names of cities and towns in Frengland, which shared a name with a Canadian city or town.

Following his return from Frengland, Chang formally resigned from the Birthday Cabinet and became a founding member of the Pokémon Party. Chang was appointed as the Chief Party Strategist and Shenaniganizer for the duration of the election. He became the party's chief negotiator when merger talks began with the Gamerz on the Run Party. When the party announced its merger with the Skeleton Party and the Gamerz on the Run Party to form the Big Tent Party, Chang was re-acclaimed as the party's candidate for Mississauga—East Cooksville and remained as Chief Party Strategist and Shenaniganizer.

Following the Big Tent Party's defeat and their appointment as official opposition, Chang offered his resignation as Chief Party Strategist but was encouraged to stay by its party leader and official opposition leader Mica Oestreich. He was appointed to shadow cabinet as the Shadow Minister for "I Can Fix Him" and Shadow Minister for Anti-BoneMuncher Activity.

During the Opening of Parliament, Chang remained as Usher of the Black Rod.

During the first sitting day, Chang voiced support for collaboration between the two main opposition parties, the Big Tent Party and the Small Party Party. He later voted to pass the Big Tent opposition bill based on "I have to; I wrote the damn thing!" Upon the fall of the O'Barbie government, Chang became the Minister for "I Can Fix Him" and Anti-BoneMuncher Activity; however, it was later revealed he had been a founding member of the now-opposition PPPPPPP Party. This became apparent when he resigned from his ministry and crossed the floor alongside the LAC Caucus. When the PPPPPPP Party was successful in bringing down the Big Tent government, Chang was appointed the Minister of "Let Me Cook", and served in the cabinets of Prime Ministers Brandon Ly, Carly Fox, and Carson Baker.

Near the end of the second sitting day, Chang was granted the honorary title of "Right Honourable" by Prime Minister Baker for his service to MPSP in previous years as well as his service within two governing parties of MPSP2024 and his role as Usher of the Black Rod. He is the only Right Honourable to never serve on any party leadership executive. He later then passed a unanimous motion to extend the honourary Right Honourable title to Aurora—Oak Ridges—Richmond Hill MP Iris Habekost, Nickel Belt MP Daphnée Veilleux-Michaud, and Beauport—Limoilou MP Nicolas Michaud.