Raymond Albert "Ray" Speaker, PC ECA OC (born December 13, 1935) is a Canadian politician.
He also became Chairman of the Human Resources Development Authority in 1969 under Manning's successor, Harry Strom.
However, in 1982, Speaker announced that Social Credit would be sitting out the next provincial election due to dwindling support for the party.
A few months earlier, Clark's former seat had been resoundingly lost in a by-election, costing Social Credit official party status.
Soon after the writs were dropped for the election, Speaker and Walt Buck resigned from the party and were reelected as independents.
After the Conservative Party won a plurality of seats in the 2006 federal election, Speaker was appointed to the Prime Minister's transition team.