‘It’s a different world we’re all living in’: vast majority of staff working remotely, focused on COVID-19 response

‘Constituents have a lot of questions. So I know all of our offices are busy, wherever the staff are actually located at this point,’ says NDP Whip Rachel Blaney.

Ministerial staff wait in the wings during a press conference with ministers leading the federal government's COVID-19 response in the West Block on March 20. The majority of staff are now working remotely, but some essential staff are still needed on site. Pictured are Véronique Simard, left, senior communications and media relations adviser to Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains; Thierry Bélair, second from right, communications director to Health Minister Patty Hajdu; and Andrée-Lyne Hallé, deputy chief of staff to Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

March 25, 2020

The vast majority of staff—from ministerial offices on the Hill to the constituency offices of Members of Parliament—are now working from home and busy working to answer high volumes of public queries and implement new measures being announced to help Canadians amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

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