What the Hill represents and what it can do is bigger than any of us

Sometimes, we all need to lift our heads up from the policy books, slogans, zingers, and even the crucially important constituency work and take a deep breath.

In the rush and cut and thrust of every day, it’s too easy to let the House of Commons, the historic buildings, and even the impact we can have on people’s lives, become banal and just like going to any other office, writes former NDP staffer George Soule. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

August 3, 2022

Entire books have been written about staffer life, the world of insiders, and the secret lives of politicians. And a lot of ink has been spilled (and megabytes used) in these pages and others by people with deeper thoughts than mine about what you should and should not do when working in politics. ...

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