# Peter Milliken being dragged up to the chair in Canada's Parliament today

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**Created:** [April 4, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-milliken-being-dragged-up-to-the-chair-in-canadas-parliament-today/351278 "2006-04-04T17:13:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2006, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peter-milliken-being-dragged-up-to-the-chair-in-canadas-parliament-today/351278/1 "2006-04-04T17:13:03Z")

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Today the major newspapers here were sporting pictures of Peter Milliken, our newest [Speaker of the House of Commons](http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/about/people/House/Speaker/index_e.html), being dragged up to his seat in the Parliament Buildings by Stephen Harper (the current Prime Minister) and Paul Martin (the former PM).

According to the article [here](http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2004/10/04/milliken041004.html), the ministers “pretended to be dragging a reluctant Milliken to the chair. It is a tradition borrowed from Britain, where speakers of the House once ran the risk of losing their heads to irritated regents.”

There’s a Liberal leadership race joke in here, if I can find it somewhere…