The elusive parliamentary secretary (secretarius parlamentarius)
The parliamentary secretary can and should be a valuable member of the government apparatus. However, to simply assume that everyone understands how these things are supposed to work is asking for trouble, and to compound the felony, it will be trouble that is self-inflicted. The good news is that these things can be sorted out with a combination of information and understanding.
OTTAWA—One of the very real challenges that new parliamentary participants must overcome is the general lack of absolutes, and the reliance on precedent and custom inherent in the system. In other words, you have to know what you don’t know in order to know what you don’t know, and the recursi...
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