‘From one minute to the next, you don’t know what you’re going to be faced with’: MPs lend a hand, sympathetic ear to B.C. wildfire victims

MPs in the fire-stricken British Columbia interior say they’ve been acting more as community volunteers than Members of Parliament as they help the thousands of constituents who have had to flee their homes, uncertain of what they’ll return to.

Conservative MPs Todd Doherty, top, and Cathy McLeod, bottom, are among those whose constituents are affected by wildfires ravaging parts of British Columbia's interior. They represent neighbouring ridings in the Cariboo region. The Hill Times photographs by Jake Wright, photograph courtesy of the B.C. Wildfire Service

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BY RACHEL AIELLO

July 12, 2017

Conservative MP Todd Doherty is preparing to have family members including his in-laws, cousins, aunts and uncles, and possibly some friends camped out in his Prince George, B.C. living room and driveway by day’s end. The MP's Cariboo-Prince George, B.C. riding is one of the hardest hit by the fi...

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