Parliamentarians of the Year awards 2018 in pictures
The recipients of the 2018 awards were announced on Nov. 5 in Ottawa
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Parliamentarians of the year
And the 2018 Parliamentarians of the Year are...
The recipients of the 2018 awards honouring exceptional MPs were announced on Nov. 5 in Ottawa
Nathan Cullen: The 2018 Parliamentarian of the Year
The five-term MP was twice named Best Orator and once named Most Knowledgeable before taking the top prize in 2018
Paul Dewar: The 2018 Lifetime Achievement Award winner
As the three-term former MP fights a cancer diagnosis, Maclean’s honours his contribution to Parliament
Pierre Poilievre: From smart aleck to smart fellow
Poilievre’s 14 years in the House of Commons have trained him to hammer away on a particular point—but always in simple terms
Gérard Deltell: An orator who needs no script
Once the House’s Rising Star, the animated Deltell is the first-ever Francophone named Best Orator
Richard Martel: The bench boss who found a new team
Nobody has won a parliamentarian of the year award faster than Martel, who was only elected in June. Talk about a rising star.
Chrystia Freeland: The minister of being everywhere at once
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: The voice of the remote, fly-in outpost
Georgina Jolibois has to cover a lot of ground in northern Saskatchewan to represent her constituents. Her colleagues in Ottawa appear to have noticed.
Monique Pauzé: The feisty teacher in the House
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