‘It makes a lot of things easier’: ex-staffers turned MPs say Hill experience proving a boon

More than 100 first-time MPs were elected on April 28, and are now readying for Parliament’s fastest post-election return since 1988.
Liberals Marianne Dandurand, left, Fares Al Soud, and Conservative Grant Jackson are all former staff who've been elected to sit in the House of Commons.

Becoming a first-time MP can be a daunting experience, with a host of new rules to learn, staff to hire, offices to set up, and new colleagues to meet. And with Parliament making its fastest post-election return in three decades, former federal staffers elected to sit in the...

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