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Documents tabled by the Privy Council Office this week show that Ingrid Speaker, the wife of a former Reform Party MP, was paid $5,831 to sit on a “non-partisan” committee to select a new Lieutenant-Governor for Alberta.

Speaker is married to Ray Speaker, who was elected in a wave of Reformers sent to Ottawa in 1993. She is also past chancellor of the University of Lethbridge.

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Ian Holloway, the dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary, was paid the same amount, the document shows.

Last December, Harper’s office announced that Speaker and Holloway would be added to the existing, three-member selection committee.

The committee eventually advised that Lois Mitchell, a Calgary businesswoman, should be appointed to the vice-regal post.

She was sworn in last week.