MPs to consider new mailing guidelines as some call for shuttered service’s return

‘We cannot be deprived for a long time from this tool to reach out to our constituents,’ says Bloc MP Stéphane Bergeron.

Some MPs say they hope to see their mailing privileges return, because the current pandemic is the ‘ultimate time’ to be sending key information to constituents through these mail-outs. Pictured from left to right: Liberal MP Adam Vaughan, NDP MP Peter Julian, Bloc Québécois MP Stéphane Bergeron, and Conservative MP Kerry Diotte. The Hill Times photographs by Cynthia Münster, Andrew Meade, and courtesy of Facebook

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BY SAMANTHA WRIGHT ALLEN

April 15, 2020

When Parliament shut down, Members of Parliament lost the ability to mail their constituents en masse, which some worry is stopping key information from getting to vulnerable residents in the middle of a pandemic. Parliamentary ...

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