What do we want from them?

Alison Loat follows Samara’s last report with an op-ed.

With that in mind, it’s time to consider giving our MPs a proper job description. Being an MP is a critical job in our democracy, and there needs to be some consistency in our collective understanding of its key components, responsibilities and expectations ... it is the responsibility of the Canadian citizenry to define the job of our elected representatives. After all, if the employer – in this case, the Canadian voter – doesn’t give its employees in Ottawa a clear sense of what’s expected of them on the job, who’s really to blame when that job doesn’t get done?