The House Of Commons: Timely Reminder

Undeniable Impact Dept: She may be a one-woman show on the Hill but May s undeniable impact on parliamentary life is a timely reminder that, at the best of times, the House of Commons is more than just the sum of 308 indistinguishable and sometimes undistinguished partisan bodies, according to The Star. Bob Rae: The Liberal interim leader renounced his last shot at becoming prime minister when he took himself out of the leadership line-up last spring. Then he continued to get up every morning to go to work at keeping the third-place Liberal party relevant in the Commons and the Green Party gave the NDP and the Liberals a neck cramp this fall. But it was not because Elizabeth May forced her opposition rivals to spend a byelection campaign looking over their shoulders in Victoria and Calgary Centre that she was selected by her peers as the 2012 Maclean s/L Actualite Parliamentarian of the Year. Here are six others whose voices made a difference over the past year. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.