Wellington-Halton Hills MPP Ted Arnott has been appointed first deputy chairman of the committee of the whole house.
Arnott’s new position will make him one of the presiding officers of the legislative assembly, who will enforce the rules of the house when speaker Steve Peters is not present. Also appointed as assistant speakers were MPPs Bruce Crozier, Jim Wilson, and Andrea Horwath.
“I am very pleased my colleagues have entrusted me with this responsibility,” said Arnott.
It is a job from which he can draw on his four years of experience in the same position in the previous provincial parliament, as well as his 17 years’ experience as an MPP.
Arnott was one of five candidates to put his name forward to serve as Speaker of the legislative assembly; he survived until the third ballot despite the fact that the other four candidates were Liberal MPPs.
