Canadian House of Commons Page Program

Every year, 40 undergraduate students are selected via national competition to work for the House of Commons as pages.

[1] Pages take part in a number of activities throughout the year designed to enrich their experience, including meetings with MPs and government leaders.

Forty graduating high school (or CEGEP in Quebec) students are selected each year to serve as pages in the House of Commons.

After a week's training, prior to starting their term, pages are sworn in by the Speaker and Clerk of the House of Commons.

Although officially under the auspices and jurisdiction of the Speaker of the House, the Page Program for the first 20 years was the full-time responsibility of Miss Annette Leger, a former assistant to federal Liberal Cabinet Minister Donald Stovel Macdonald.