Rookie MPs get crash course on life in ‘Ottawa bubble’

Learn to reach across party lines for relationships and resist sticking to talking points, new MPs told at a Carleton University-hosted orientation event.

Privy Council clerk Ian Shugart says that his job as Ottawa's top bureaucrat is to ensure that public servants don't cross the 'red lines.' The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

January 22, 2020

Minority parliaments provide MPs an unusual opportunity to exert more political influence and to collaborate, even in the face of pressures to bow down to party discipline, a former NDP MP told new politicians assembled on Jan. 22 in Ottawa for a crash course on the p...

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