Parliamentarians of the Year 2018

The recipients of the 2018 awards were announced on Nov. 5 in Ottawa

The recipients of the 2018 awards honouring exceptional MPs were announced on Nov. 5 in Ottawa

The five-term MP was twice named Best Orator and once named Most Knowledgeable before taking the top prize in 2018

As the three-term former MP fights a cancer diagnosis, Maclean’s honours his contribution to Parliament

Poilievre’s 14 years in the House of Commons have trained him to hammer away on a particular point—but always in simple terms

Once the House’s Rising Star, the animated Deltell is the first-ever Francophone named Best Orator

Nobody has won a parliamentarian of the year award faster than Martel, who was only elected in June. Talk about a rising star.

Voted this year’s hardest-working MP, Freeland spent most of the past year effectively doing two ministerial jobs at the same time

Georgina Jolibois has to cover a lot of ground in northern Saskatchewan to represent her constituents. Her colleagues in Ottawa appear to have noticed.

A former career as a schoolteacher prepared Pauzé for the raucousness of partisan Ottawa—where the Most Collegial MP has managed to build real working relationships

The 2018 winner for Best Civic Outreach says he’s visited every house in his riding three times—and adds to the tally every weekend he’s home

Sgro has won Best Mentor both times its been awarded—a consequence of a political career full of wisdom for newcomers