Swearing-in ceremony more than just a signature for new, returning MPs

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this time around there’s a virtual option that approximately 30 per cent of MPs have taken advantage of.

Liberal MP Filomena Tassi chose to hold an event for her virtual swearing-in ceremony in her backyard, surrounded by nature and in the shadow of a willow tree that’s been around longer than she has.Photograph courtesy of Twitter

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BY ALICE CHEN

October 27, 2021

For Conservative Marilyn Gladu, the date that she was sworn in as an MP this year was one imbued with bittersweet melancholy. The Sarnia-Lambton, Ont., representative chose Oct. 20 because it was the day her mother died last year. “I did it in person on this particular anniversary of my mother�...

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