Illustrious Parliamentary Internship Program all started at a breakfast table in Guelph in 1965

Back in 1965, Progressive Conservative MP Alf Hales complained to his daughter Beverly and her husband David Stager that he felt buried by the burden of legislative and constituency work as a backbench MP. So he helped start the Parliamentary Internship Program, which celebrated its 50th anniversary last week.

People pictured, May 10, 2019, at the 50th Anniversary of the Parliamentary Internship Program's full day of panels held at the Sir John A. Macdonald Building. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ALAN FREEMAN AND ELEANOR DAVIDSON

May 20, 2019

OTTAWA—It all started at a breakfast table in Guelph, Ont., in 1965. Alf Hales, the local Progressive Conservative MP, complained to his daughter Beverly and her husband David Stager that he felt buried by the burden of legislative and constituency work as a backbench MP. “He had a shared secre...

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