{"id":11425,"date":"2023-09-26T19:32:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/anthony-rota-steps-down-as-house-of-commons-speaker\/"},"modified":"2023-09-26T19:32:50","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T19:32:50","slug":"anthony-rota-steps-down-as-house-of-commons-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/anthony-rota-steps-down-as-house-of-commons-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Rota steps down as House of Commons Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VTuAfd3RFNY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Liberal MP Anthony Rota announced Tuesday he is stepping down as House of Commons Speaker after inviting a Ukrainian who fought in a Nazi unit during the Second World War to Parliament during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy&#8217;s visit last week. Rota&#8217;s resignation will take effect at the end of the sitting day on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb Subscribe to CBC News to watch more videos:<\/p>\n<p>Connect with CBC News Online:<\/p>\n<p>For breaking news, video, audio and in-depth coverage:<br \/>\nFind CBC News on Facebook:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Twitter:<br \/>\nFor breaking news on Twitter:<br \/>\nFollow CBC News on Instagram:<br \/>\nSubscribe to CBC News on Snapchat:<\/p>\n<p>Download the CBC News app for iOS:<br \/>\nDownload the CBC News app for Android:<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb\u00bb<br \/>\nFor more than 80 years, CBC News has been the source Canadians turn to, to keep them informed about their communities, their country and their world. Through regional and national programming on multiple platforms, including CBC Television, CBC News Network, CBC Radio, CBCNews.ca, mobile and on-demand, CBC News and its internationally recognized team of award-winning journalists deliver the breaking stories, the issues, the analyses and the personalities that matter to Canadians.<\/p>\n<hr>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberal MP Anthony Rota announced Tuesday he is stepping down as House of Commons Speaker after inviting a Ukrainian who fought in a Nazi unit during the Second World War to Parliament during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy&#8217;s visit last week.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[11615,78,86,87,3946,75,1323,11693],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edmontondailynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}