‘Suicide is a dark spirit and we need to be careful with how we move forward with this bill’

Liberal MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette overcame poverty and homelessness to fight for the powerless.

Liberal MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette, who represents Winnipeg Centre, Man., performed a pipe ceremony—a sacred ritual joining physical and spiritual worlds—on the front steps of Centre Block in the middle of a snowstorm on Feb. 23. The Hill Times photograph by Cheslea Nash

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BY CHELSEA NASH

February 29, 2016

Newly-elected Liberal MP Robert-Falcon Ouellette doesn’t give up. He's blunt, sometimes controversial, and a fighter. He comes by it naturally. His mother, Sharon Ouellette, was a single mother of two boys who while working for minimum wage in the service industry in Calgary, took out a loan sh...

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