Rural Liberal MPs team up to get issues heard, lobbying ministers

With 50 MPs, the Liberals' rural caucus is its second biggest caucus after its group of Ontario MPs.

David de Burgh Graham, a member of the Liberal rural caucus, says if rural MPs don't work together, their concerns won't be heard.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

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BY ABBAS RANA

September 26, 2016

Federal elections are increasingly won or lost in major urban centres, resulting in the diminishing political clout of rural ridings that have become fewer in number over the years. In an effort to ensure that rural issues receive the attention they deserve, 50 Liberal MPs representing rural ridin...

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