MPs’ staffers overworked, hardly visible, poorly understood

MPs' staffers say the public knows very little about their work, their demands, their importance, and the relatively modest pay they receive.

Liberal MPs Ruby Sahota and Matt DeCourcey pictured at the House Electoral Reform Committee on the Hill recently. Behind them sit Liberal MP staffers keeping an eye on committee work. The Hill Times photograph Jake Wright

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

August 15, 2016

Current and former staffers of MPs say there’s a lack of public understanding about what they do and many are eager to see that change. “It’s obviously a very high-profile office to work in, but at the same time, there is that sort of degree of mystery,” Daniel Dickin, a policy and communi...

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