Ottawa

Who are these guys?

Amid concern over some of the candidates rounding out the furthest reaches of the NDP campaign, Les Perreaux offers a short history of the unlikely MP.

Old hands in Quebec political coverage recount the legend of 1962, when 26 Social Credit MPs from Quebec were elected in an unexpected breakthrough. The story goes that instead of heading to Ottawa to Parliament Hill, a couple of the newly minted MPs showed up for work at the National Assembly in Quebec City. Sympathetic workers at the provincial legislature were said to have corrected the MPs on their political geography and sent them on their way toward Ottawa.

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