I went to Ottawa to fight for social justice

Former NDP MP Libby Davies talks about what made her a good MP and about her book, Outside In: Political Memoir.

Then-NDP MP Libby Davies, pictured in 2012 at a House committee meeting on the Hill. 'I believe power should be about cooperation and sharing and an understanding that when people are voiceless and violated in our society, we all lose,' she writes. The Hill Times photograph by Steve Gerecke

Opinion

BY Libby Davies

April 22, 2019

When I arrived on Parliament Hill in 1997 as a new MP, it was with a compelling sense of urgency about the staggering number of deaths from overdoses amongst people who used street drugs in the Downtown Eastside in my riding of Vancouver East. I knew I had to do something to stop these tragic and pr...

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