No, we don't need any more Officers of Parliament

I have a second column this week on Loonie Politics, in which I respond to Independent MP Brent Rathgeber's suggestion that we make the Speaker an Officer of Parliament. I have done a lot of reading by scholars of our political institutions who have made the case that the proliferation of Officers of Parliament have weakened the role of opposition in our parliamentary system, and I've witnessed this with the creation of the Parliamentary Budget Officer, and felt the need to respond to that suggestion.