Robert Edward Wanner (born April 25, 1949) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the
2015 Alberta general election to the
Legislative Assembly of Alberta
The Legislative Assembly of Alberta is the deliberative assembly of the province of Alberta, Canada. It sits in the Alberta Legislature Building in Edmonton. Since 2012 the Legislative Assembly has had 87 members, elected first past the post f ...
representing the
electoral district
An electoral (congressional, legislative, etc.) district, sometimes called a constituency, riding, or ward, is a geographical portion of a political unit, such as a country, state or province, city, or administrative region, created to provi ...
of
Medicine Hat
Medicine Hat is a city in Southern Alberta, southeast Alberta, Canada. It is located along the South Saskatchewan River. It is approximately east of Lethbridge and southeast of Calgary. This city and the adjacent Town of Redcliff, Alberta, R ...
. On June 11, 2015, he was elected as
Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.
On April 18, 2016, Wanner threw interim
PC leader
Ric McIver out of the Alberta legislature for repeatedly refusing to sit down after learning that sheets explaining Wanner's ruling for an NDP amendment on a motion tabled by McIver had been distributed before the amendment was even debated on the floor.
Wanner did not seek re-election in the
2019 general election.
Electoral history
2015 general election
References
External links
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1949 births
Alberta New Democratic Party MLAs
Living people
People from Medicine Hat
People from Weyburn
Speakers of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
21st-century members of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta
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