the last Socred government, as well as the last parliamentary survivor of the Manning and Strom governments. National politics Speaker resigned from the Legislative Assembly in 1992 after winning the Reform Party of Canada nomination for the seat of Lethbridge in the House of Commons of Canada. He won handily, and served as finance critic and then House Leader of the Reform caucus. He retired from politics at the 1997 election. After politics In 1999, Speaker was appointed to the Security Intelligence Review Committee, an agency which provides an external review of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and was named to the Queen's Privy Council for Canada. In 2001, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2003, he received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lethbridge, Honorary Doctorate of Laws. After the Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in the 2006 federal election, Speaker was appointed to the Prime Minister's transition team. He also was the chair of the Conservative-Canadian Alliance merger. He was appointed as a mentor for the Trudeau Foundation of Canada in January 2008. References External links 1935 births Alberta Social Credit Party MLAs Independent Alberta MLAs Canadian Lutherans Living people Members of the Executive Council of Alberta Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Alberta Members of the King's Privy Council for Canada Officers of the Order of Canada Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta MLAs Reform Party of Canada MPs Representative Party of Alberta MLAs 20th-century Canadian politicians