Parliamentarians of the year
Between the bluster and the blarney, there is a lot of good work done on Parliament Hill. And so for the fourth year in a row, we asked MPs to nominate the best among their peers. Nearly 70 per cent...
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Parliamentarian of the Year awards: Baird is the best, Bob is the best orator
The fourth annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards saw Transport Minister John Baird take the top prize at a special reception in 200 West Block. The other winners were NDP MP Peter Stoffer for Most...
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Mitchel Raphael on John Baird’s mom, his Grade 7 teacher, her sister . . .
Kelly Block and the Bloc MPs from all parties took home prizes at Maclean’s fourth annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards ceremony held in the West Block. For the fourth time in a row, Nova Scotia...
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Parliamentarians of the Year (best represents constituents): Michael Chong
Peter Bregg/Maclean's Michael Chong’s guiding political rule is: always pay attention to your constituents. “The least we can do for people who have disagreements with the government is to relay those...
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Parliamentarians of the Year (best rookie): Chris Alexander
Peter Bregg/Maclean's For most rookie MPs, the move to Parliament Hill marks the most exciting job they’ve ever had, and the most media attention they’ve ever drawn. Not Chris Alexander. Before running...
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Parliamentarians of the Year (most knowledgeable): Joe Comartin
Peter Bregg/Maclean's Joe Comartin reads for roughly two hours each day—often 10 minutes squeezed “here and there”—but he says he longs to read more. There’s always more to know. “I think I read only...
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Parliamentarians of the Year (most collegial): Peter Stoffer
Peter Bregg/Maclean's Peter Stoffer has laugh lines etched deep in his cheeks, earned from a lifetime of smiling. “Even his enemies like him,” Conservative MP Randy Kamp tells Maclean’s. Indeed, the...
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Parliamentarians of the Year (best orator): John Baird
Recently in the House, when, at the end of question period, the Bloc Québécois’s André Bellavance asked the government about its plans for spending cuts, it wasn’t immediately clear who among the...
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Parliamentarians of the Year (hardest working): Jason Kenney
Peter Bregg/Maclean's Jason Kenney works frenetically and snatches rest when he can. For the Calgary MP, sleep is less something that happens in blocks than in patches. On planes, between events, any...
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Parliamentarian of the Year: Bob Rae
Andrew Tolson/Maclean’s Shortly after Bob Rae was first elected in 1978, John Diefenbaker, the former prime minister who remained an MP until his death in 1979 at the age of 83, imparted two pieces of...
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Parliamentarians of the Year (lifetime achievement): Jack Layton
Photograph by Jenna Marie Wakani After he led the NDP to its breakthrough in the election last May 2, Jack Layton returned to Ottawa vowing to set a new tone. “One thing that we’re going to be doing is...
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Last night at the Chateau Laurier, Maclean’s and our gracious sponsors handed out the annual awards for the best in Parliament. This year’s parliamentarian of the year is Bob Rae and you can read my...
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On the occasion of his winning the prize for parliamentarian of the year, I sat down last Thursday with Bob Rae in his corner office on the fifth floor of Centre Block. Here’s a transcript of our...
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This week, Maclean’s, in partnership with L’Actualité and the Historica-Dominion Institute, is pleased to present our fifth annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards. Bob Rae wins the top honour. His...
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Decency alone can’t save Parliament
Sean Kilpatrick/CP This year’s Parliamentarians of the Year awards were, as ever, a grand occasion, and while I’d quibble with one or two choices, the recipients were all deserving enough. The premise...
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Tonight in Ottawa, Maclean’s presents the sixth annual Parliamentarian of the Year Awards. To prepare for the big night, Paul Wells sat down with some of the previous honourees. Check back tonight at...
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And the winner is … Elizabeth May
CP/Sean Kilpatrick One morning this session, at the start of parliamentary business, Elizabeth May and Liberal MP Frank Valeriote ran into each other in the House of Commons. They had both been there...
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2012 Parliamentarians of the Year
And the POTY goes to … Related photo galleries: The 2012 Parliamentarian of the Year Awards Spotted at the POTYs Parliamentarians in conversation with Paul Wells: A video series. And … even more...
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PHOTO GALLERY: Maclean’s Parliamentarians of the Year Party
MPs, senators and the media gathered in the Adam Room of the The Fairmont Château Laurier for the 6th annual Parliamentarians of the Year awards ceremony. Green Leader Elizabeth May was named...
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Maclean’s celebrates clout and commitment in the halls of power
PHOTOGRAPH BY CHAD HIPOLITO “Corridors of power” was a phrase first coined by British writer, scientist and government bureaucrat C.P. Snow in his 1956 novel Homecomings to capture the sense that...
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