Bob Wanner

{{Short description|Canadian politician}}

{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| honorific-prefix =

| name = Bob Wanner

| honorific-suffix =

| image = Bob Wanner 2015.jpg

| caption =Wanner in 2015

| office = 13th Speaker of the
Alberta Legislative Assembly

| term_start = June 11, 2015

| term_end = May 20, 2019

| predecessor = Gene Zwozdesky

| successor = Nathan Cooper

| lieutenant_governor = Lois Mitchell

| premier = Rachel Notley

Jason Kenney

| office1 = Member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Medicine Hat

| predecessor1 =Blake Pedersen

| term_start1 = May 5, 2015

| term_end1 = April 15, 2019

| successor1 = District abolished

| birth_name = Robert Edward Wanner

| birth_date ={{Birth date and age|1949|4|25}}

| birth_place =Weyburn, Saskatchewan, Canada

| residence =Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

| party = New Democratic

| occupation =Businessman, Former Public Services Commissioner for the City of Medicine Hat

| alma_mater=

}}

Robert Edward Wanner (born April 25, 1949) is a Canadian politician who was elected in the 2015 Alberta general election to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta representing the electoral district of Medicine Hat.{{cite web |url=http://medicinehatnews.com/alberta-election/meet-the-candidates/2015/04/07/bob-wanner-ndp-medicine-hat/ |title=Bob Wanner – NDP – Medicine Hat |date=April 7, 2015 |publisher=Medicine Hat News |access-date=June 11, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150518085209/http://medicinehatnews.com/alberta-election/meet-the-candidates/2015/04/07/bob-wanner-ndp-medicine-hat/ |archive-date=May 18, 2015 }} On June 11, 2015, he was elected as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta.{{cite web |url=https://calgaryherald.com/news/politics/albertas-new-legislature-speaker-is-bob-wanner |title=Medicine Hat MLA elected speaker of Legislature |date=June 11, 2015 |author=Henton, Darcy |publisher=Calgary Herald |access-date=June 11, 2015}}

On April 18, 2016, Wanner threw interim PC leader Ric McIver out of the Alberta legislature for repeatedly refusing to sit down after learning that sheets explaining Wanner's ruling for an NDP amendment on a motion tabled by McIver had been distributed before the amendment was even debated on the floor.{{cite news | url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/ric-mciver-legislature-dispute-1.3542009 | title=Dispute over ruling gets PC leader Ric McIver kicked out of legislature | work=CBC News | date=April 18, 2016 | access-date=19 April 2016 | author=Bellefontaine, Michelle}}

Wanner did not seek re-election in the 2019 general election.{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-bob-wanner-not-running-1.4951347| title = Southern Alberta MLA Bob Wanner won't run in next election {{!}} CBC News}}