December 1st, 2021 - Alberta Politics, Speaker Nathan Cooper
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NathanCoopergate
When a Speaker isn’t neutral.
Lost in the controversies and crises involving COVID this year was a scandal involving the Speaker of Alberta’s Legislative Assembly, Nathan Cooper. I say scandal, but it could have escalated into a full-blown crisis had Cooper not backed down and apologized for trampling on a cornerstone of our system of parliamentary democracy: the tradition of a non-partisan Speaker.