No Independent Office Space: the PEI Experience

• Autores: Paula Biggar
• Localización: Canadian parliamentary review, ISSN 0229-2548, Vol. 37, Nº. 2, 2014, págs. 5-6
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Members of the Legislative Assembly in Canada�s smallest province are not provided with a budget to establish their own constituency offices. Instead, as Deputy Speaker Paula Biggar explains, backbench MLAs must do constituency work and hold meetings in a variety of locations including their offices in the capital buildings, local government-run information access centres, libraries, coffee shops or even in their own homes. Biggar notes that while PEI MLAs are the lowest paid in the country, they tend to be, and are expected to be, the most accessible to constituents.