‘More of a social work role’: MPs on balancing constituency work with emotions of electorate during COVID-19

'It’s just another case of bad timing, as an awful lot of Canadians are coping with plans that have to be adapted or suspended,' says Conservative MP Peter Kent, who is packing to move out of his constituency office in Vaughan to another site, all amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Green Party MP Jenica Atwin says since the COVID-19 pandemic, her role has become one similar to a 'social worker.'The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY AIDAN CHAMANDY, PALAK MANGAT

March 27, 2020

Some MPs and constituency staffers are balancing the need to share fast-moving daily updates on the government’s relief measures with reassuring and helping stressed-out constituents amid the pandemic. Green MP Jenica Atwin ...

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