Top 10 mistakes rookie MPs will make

Do not hire your campaign volunteers. Your staff have a serious job to do and doing it well requires a specific skill set. Put this document away and pull it out in a year and see if it makes any more sense.

Then-newly elected Bloc Québécois MP Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe, pictured Oct. 29, 2019, on his way to an orientation session put on by House of Commons staff in Wellington Building. Brunelle-Duceppe, who was re-elected on April 28, 2025, has emerged as one of the stars of the Bloc's caucus. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY JOE JORDAN

May 26, 2025

As the 20th anniversary of the writing of the original series for newly elected Members of Parliament approaches, I felt it was an appropriate time to revisit and reissue them.

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