Editing Andrew Scheer (section)

===First years in the House of Commons===
Scheer was elected at age 25 as a [[Conservative Party of Canada|Conservative]] candidate in the [[2004 Canadian federal election|federal election of 2004]], in the [[Electoral district (Canada)|riding]] of [[Regina—Qu'Appelle]], beating [[New Democratic Party]] (NDP) MP [[Lorne Nystrom]] by 861 votes.<ref name="elections.ca">[http://www.elections.ca/scripts/OVR2004/default.html Elections Canada, Official Voting Results], 28 June 2004.</ref> Near the end of the race, Scheer accused Nystrom of being soft on child pornography.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/he-actually-understood-what-it-meant-to-be-a-candidate-andrew-scheer-the-ultimate-political-animal|title='He actually understood what it meant to be a candidate': Andrew Scheer the ultimate political animal|date=9 June 2017|work=National Post|access-date=13 October 2017|language=en-US}}</ref> Scheer was re-elected in the [[2006 Canadian federal election|federal election of 2006]], again defeating Nystrom, this time by a margin of 2,740 votes.<ref>[http://www.elections.ca/scripts/OVR2006/default.html Elections Canada, Official Voting Results], 23 January 2006.</ref>

In April 2006, during the [[39th Canadian Parliament]], Scheer was named as assistant deputy chairman of Committees of the Whole, one of three deputy speakers. He also sponsored a bill that would create [[minimum sentence]]s for those convicted of [[motor vehicle theft]] called Bill C-343, ''An Act to amend the Criminal Code (motor vehicle theft)''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/39-2/bill/C-343/first-reading/page-24|title=Private Member's Bill C-343 (39–2) – First Reading – An Act to amend the Criminal Code (motor vehicle theft) – Parliament of Canada|website=www.parl.ca}}</ref>

On November 21, 2008, during the [[40th Canadian Parliament]], he was named [[Speaker of the House of Commons (Canada)#Deputy speaker|deputy speaker of the House of Commons and chairman of Committees of the Whole]], succeeding NDP MP [[Bill Blaikie]].<ref>[http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=1&DocId=3611885 Journal of the House of Commons of Canada] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812163852/http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=40&Ses=1&DocId=3611885 |date=August 12, 2016 }}, 21 November 2008.</ref>