Why our MPs are nobodies
Today, leaders and their central party machines don't need their MPs for political intelligence gathering any more because their pollsters can give them a more scientific and less anecdotal reading of what their MPs' constituents think and want.
TORONTO, ONT.—Pierre Trudeau once quipped that MPs, once they were more than a few yards from Parliament Hill, were "nobodies." Over the decades, MPs have become less important than they once were, while leaders and political parties have become more powerful in Parliament's workings. MPs a...
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