‘Doing democracy by Zoom just not the same as being there in the House’: rookie MPs missing out on parliamentary experience

This could be 'the forgotten Parliament’ if the in-person House sittings don’t return before the next election, says Conservative MP Cooper.

Rookie Conservative MP Michael Kram, left, Liberal MP Han Dong, and NDP MP Laurel Collins say that by working remotely, they're missing out the parliamentary experience in Ottawa but understand that it's a pandemic and are making the best of their virtual parliamentary experience by helping out constituents.Photographs courtesy of Facebook and Laurel Collins

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BY ABBAS RANA

May 25, 2020

Some of the 98 rookie MPs elected in the last election say they're missing out on the cut-and-thrust of Ottawa's parliamentary experience as Canada's federal lawmakers, and a Conservative MP says if there's an early election this could become "the forgotten Parliament," the one during the global pan...

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