MPs are ‘nobodies’ on the Hill, ‘like pawns in a chess game’: Franks

'I've seen so many really good people in Parliament leave because they can't get things done in this political quicksand,' says Liberal MP Keith Martin

Forty years after former prime minister Pierre Trudeau said that MPs are "nobodies" 50 yards from Parliament Hill, Parliamentary expert Ned Franks says he got it wrong—MPs are nobodies on the Hill, but somebodies in their constituencies.

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