Speaker is bupkes compared Employment and Social Development, Finance, Justice, and others.  CRA has ~30K employees,  ESDC oversees the payment of about 115B$ annually -- and they are both under much more public scrutiny.  It's like comparing a multinational corporation with a convenience store.

Who's smarter?  I haven't seen enough of Andrew to know.  Being quick with a quip is great, but he could have done a much better job handling the leadership vote fiasco.  I really didn't like Harper, but he would have put a lid on those shenanigans in a New York minute.

And while I don't expect a detailed document explaining policy, he has been curiously mum about what he will do (he has said he won't do a few things).  Granted, his chief opponent wasn't what you'd call detailed either.

Jury's out for me.  If he manages to unite the party and keep the socons mollified without championing regressive policy he'll earn my respect.  Just too early to tell right now.