Parliamentarians of the year

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