chair of committees of the whole

Other members may act as temporary chairs of Committees of the Whole House.

In June 2011, she was named Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees of the Whole.

The Speaker is assisted by a Deputy Speaker, who also holds the title of Chair of Committees of the Whole.

Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole - Royal Galipeau (the Conservative Member for Ottawa-Orléans).

Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole - Jean Augustine (the Liberal Member for Etobicoke-Lakeshore).

He was Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole between 1963 and 1965 and Chairperson of the Special Committee on a Canadian flag.

Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committees of the Whole - Hon Chuck Strahl (the Conservative Member for Chilliwack-Fraser Canyon).

Two other deputies-the Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole and the Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole-also preside.

In November 2008, she was named Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole, the second of three chair occupants who assist the Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons.

In 2004, she was appointed to the position of Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole, making her the first African Canadian to occupy the Speaker's Chair in the Canadian House of Commons.

A businesswoman, she has served as the Assistant Deputy Chair of Committees of the Whole, as well as the Opposition Critic of Multiculturalism, the Status of Women, Public Health, and as Critic of Veterans Affairs.

In addition to the Speaker, a Deputy Speaker, also known as the Chair of Committees of the Whole or "Chair of Committees", is elected at the beginning of each parliament to act in place of the Speaker when the latter is unavailable.