1. Anthony Michael Gerard Rota was born on May 15,1961 and is a Canadian politician who served as the 37th speaker of the House of Commons from 2019 to 2023.
16 Facts About Anthony Rota
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Anthony Rota holds a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Wilfrid Laurier University, a diploma in finance from Algonquin College and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Ottawa.
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Anthony Rota has served with the Canadian Technology Network in Ottawa and has worked in the private sector.
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Anthony Rota is fluent in English, French, Italian and Spanish.
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Anthony Rota began his political career at the municipal level, serving as a city councillor for North Bay City Council from 1994 to 1997, chairing the city's planning and economic development committee.
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Anthony Rota was re-elected in the 2006 election, defeating the Conservative Party's Peter Chirico, the NDP's Dave Fluri, and the Green Party's Meg Purdy.
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Anthony Rota served as the Liberal Party caucus chair, and as critic for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario.
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Anthony Rota ran again in the 2011 election and lost by a reported 14 votes to Jay Aspin of the Conservative Party.
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On June 17,2020, Anthony Rota ordered that NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh be removed from the House of Commons after referring to Bloc Quebecois MP Alain Therrien as a racist.
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Subsequently, Speaker Anthony Rota reprimanded Iain Stewart, the President of the Public Health Agency of Canada for PHAC's "contempt" of Parliament, after Stewart failed to comply with multiple House and Commons committee orders to produce these unredacted documents.
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Speaker Anthony Rota had upheld the principle that the judiciary has no jurisdiction over the operations of the House and that only Parliament can decide how the law applies to its institutions.
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On November 22,2021, Anthony Rota was reelected as the speaker of the House of Commons.
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On September 22,2023, following an address to the Canadian parliament by visiting Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Anthony Rota introduced and recognized Yaroslav Hunka, a Ukrainian-Canadian retiree from North Bay, in the parliamentary galleries.
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Anthony Rota is a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero, and we thank him for all his service.
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On September 26,2023, Anthony Rota announced his resignation as House Speaker, effective on September 27.
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Anthony Rota was the seventh House Speaker to resign in Canadian history, and the first to do so since John Bosley in 1986.