Manitoba Conservative MP Brian Pallister (left) was elected last night as the Chair of the House of Commons Finance Committee. Pallister was Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s “nominee” for this position.
There had been some talk that Alberta Conservative John Williams might have been Harper’s nominee but Williams is not on Finance. There was also some gossip that Ontario Conservative Garth Turner was going to contest the Prime Minister’s nomination and stand for the position himself but, in the end, it was Turner who nominated Pallister.
The vice-chairs of the committee are Quebec Liberal MP Massimo Pacetti — he chaired this committee in the last Parliament — and Bloc Quebecois MP Yvan Loubier.