‘It’s much lonelier’: MPs talk about doing politics in the age of the pandemic

MPs from all parties are also watching the provincial election in British Columbia carefully to learn how to run a campaign in the midst of a pandemic.

Liberal MP Judy Sgro, Conservative MP Mike Lake, and NDP MP Charlie Angus all say the global pandemic has dramatically changed how they do their jobs as federal lawmakers. Mr. Angus says the COVID-19 has 'completely changed' MPs’ relationships with constituents and described this as the 'biggest shift' in memory.The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade

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BY ABBAS RANA

September 28, 2020

Backbench MPs say the global pandemic has turned doing retail politics on its head, say the legislative job is much lonelier without all the human interaction on the Hill and in the ridings, and some even say pressing the flesh could be off bounds forever. Liberal MP Judy Sgro (Humber River-Black C...

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