Zoom meet-ups and chat groups: the unusual first term of Parliament’s class of 2019

Members of the House of Commons first elected in 2019 reflect on their time in Parliament, an experience dominated by COVID-19, which kept many MPs out of Ottawa.

Bloc Leader Yves-François Blanchet offers Bloc House Leader Alain Therrien hand sanitizer during a House sitting on March 24, 2020, to deal with emergency COVID measures. Both are among the 98 first-time MPs elected in 2019. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY LAURA RYCKEWAERT

July 14, 2021

Ottawa’s bracing for an election call that would end the 43rd Parliament, most of which has been spent in the shadow of COVID-19, and first-term MPs say that while the resulting shift to virtual helped level the playing field and bring welcome flexibility, it made for a “shadow” of ...

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